Hm..
easier solution?

Actually ...
if you open up the cover that exposes the battery..
(make sure you have a nice clean flat area of ..say your kitchen table for this...don't want to be missing parts...)
Take the batt out...
remove the screws holding the assembly in...

Now you will notice an off - fuchsia colored wire, beside a deep magenta coupling.
Just go and rip that off - fuchsia colored wire right out...
Tie it in a bow on your left pinkie toe ...
and then put back the assembly and the batt. cover back on.

openssl should work now...
but only as long as the off - fuchsia colored wire tied in a bow on your left pinkie toe is within exactly 1.24 feet of the n900
Proximity issue ...
So you may need to figure out exactly how to walk and keep the device within left - pinkie - toe range.


There we go.
Much easier eh?