From owner-freebsd-security Tue Apr 17 14: 2: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from hex.databits.net (hex.databits.net [207.29.192.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C51237B423 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:01:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from petef@hex.databits.net) Received: (qmail 19631 invoked by uid 1001); 17 Apr 2001 21:03:03 -0000 Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:03:03 -0400 From: Pete Fritchman To: James Greenfield Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPG and "Not enough random bytes available" Message-ID: <20010417170303.D17908@databits.net> References: <026a01c0c780$e4ab3260$4501a8c0@boubou> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <026a01c0c780$e4ab3260$4501a8c0@boubou>; from james@pagearts.co.za on Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 10:56:36PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ++ 17/04/01 22:56 +0200 - James Greenfield: | Any attempt to generate a keypair results in a message to the effect of "Not | enough random bytes available". See rndcontrol(8), you can help generate entropy by using interrupts. You can also set rand_irqs to a space-delimited list of IRQs to feed to rndcontrol at boot. -pete -- Pete Fritchman Databits Network Services, Inc. finger petef@databits.net for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message