From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 10 12:16:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beau.nrez.net (beau.nrez.net [165.64.255.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3503637B417 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:16:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by beau.nrez.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5FE0A5D07; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:17:45 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:17:45 -0700 From: Ryan Mansager To: wes chow Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [questions] Re: pgp Message-ID: <20020410121745.A15391@beau.nrez.net> Reply-To: ryan@zxcv.cc References: <20020410154345.GJ2686@irrelevant.org> <20020410142341.D11884-100000@hitchcock.woahnelly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020410142341.D11884-100000@hitchcock.woahnelly.net>; from wes@woahnelly.net on Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:27:33PM -0400 Organization: Nreznet X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i assume you're doing this remotely. banging on the keyboard doesn't work unless you're physically at the machine. Your best bet is to hammer your disk: `find / &` before you gpg --gen-key and you should be ok. there's lots of info about this via a simple google search, .ryan On Wed, Apr 10 2002, wes chow wrote: > > > I've been trying to set up gnupg. I installed it from the ports > collection, and then ran "gpg --gen-key" and got through all of the > various menu options. And then it started to generate the random bytes, > and asked me to "do some work to give the OS a chance to collect more > entropy". It's been running for quite a while (and I've typed plenty of > characters), but it still hasn't finished (it's been going for close to 20 > minutes). This isn't normal, is it? > > > Wes > > > > On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Simon Dick wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:35:05AM -0400, wes chow wrote: > > > > > > What implementation of pgp is currently the most popular? I was thinking > > > about using gnupg, but it's not compatible with pgp 2.x, which uses the > > > patented IDEA encryption scheme. Is this going to be a big inconvenience? > > > > I use gnupg personally, there is the possibility to use IDEA if you > > install the security/gnupg-idea port > > > > -- > > Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message