From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 11 11:24: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from irv1-mail2.intelenet.net (irv1-mail2.intelenet.net [204.182.160.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7094337B503 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:24:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nimba.intelenet.net (nimba.intelenet.net [207.38.65.93]) by irv1-mail2.intelenet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA26096 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:24:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by nimba.intelenet.net (Postfix, from userid 1294) id B86DD83B56; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:24:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:24:03 -0700 From: matthew zeier To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: gnupg says not enough entropy... ? Message-ID: <20001011112403.C15262@intelenet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="t0UkRYy7tHLRMCai" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --t0UkRYy7tHLRMCai Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm having problems generating a key with Gnupg (gpg --gen-key). I'm not clear on how to get past this. I've kept the machine up for hours doing other work and don't get past this. Thanks. We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number generator a better chance to gain enough entropy. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++....+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++= +++++++++.+++++.+++++..+++++..+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++>+++++++++= +>+++++..l.k..j...a.s..<+++++d.kl.j...lk..j...l.a.k.s.d.j++kl+aj+sd+ Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 300 more bytes) --=20 matthew zeier - "There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish something." - Thomas Edison --t0UkRYy7tHLRMCai Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.3 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjnksEIACgkQ2vhH5UMgI9ek2QCgjoxMueGZczdQMPup0s8D1EhE GBoAnAyN2Xib/kzn8KfFAFsC9pWFYaXJ =AjLm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --t0UkRYy7tHLRMCai-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message