From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 10 11:28:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hitchcock.woahnelly.net (p69-157.acedsl.com [66.114.69.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F1C237B419 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:27:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (wes@localhost) by hitchcock.woahnelly.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3AIRYj11890 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 14:27:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wes@woahnelly.net) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 14:27:33 -0400 (EDT) From: wes chow To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pgp In-Reply-To: <20020410154345.GJ2686@irrelevant.org> Message-ID: <20020410142341.D11884-100000@hitchcock.woahnelly.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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'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