Unfortunately that didn’t seem to be it. Updating my code to verify that I am root and running it: Output: The effective user id is 0 The real user id is 0 failed to init openssl secure heap the error may be (null) Code: #include <openssl/crypto.h> #include <openssl/conf.h> #include <openssl/evp.h> #include <openssl/err.h> #include <openssl/ssl.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #define OPENSSL_MIN_HEAP_SIZE 65536 int main(){ SSL_load_error_strings(); SSL_library_init (); OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms (); uid_t uid, euid; uid = getuid(); euid = geteuid(); printf("The effective user id is %d\n", (int) geteuid()); printf("The real user id is %d\n", (int) getuid()); // Initialize the OPENSSL secure heap space for key storage int ret = CRYPTO_secure_malloc_init(OPENSSL_MIN_HEAP_SIZE, OPENSSL_MIN_HEAP_SIZE); if (ret == 0){ printf("failed to init openssl secure heap the error may be %s\n", ERR_reason_error_string(ERR_get_error())); } } > On Feb 20, 2020, at 6:31 PM, Salz, Rich <rsalz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Are you running as root? If not, that's likely to be the problem. >