Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:31:21 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> To: James Greenfield <james@pagearts.co.za> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPG and "Not enough random bytes available" Message-ID: <20010418183121.D8026@mail.webmonster.de> In-Reply-To: <026a01c0c780$e4ab3260$4501a8c0@boubou>; from james@pagearts.co.za on Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 10:56:36PM %2B0200 References: <026a01c0c780$e4ab3260$4501a8c0@boubou>
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insert the follwing into ~/.gnupg/options
load-extension rndunix
then it not ask you any questions. i do not know the implications on the
quality of random generated, could somebody deeper into gnupg's
intrinsics please comment on this?
/k
James Greenfield(james@pagearts.co.za)@2001.04.17 22:56:36 +0000:
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> I've just installed GPG 1.0.4 on FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE.
>
> Any attempt to generate a keypair results in a message to the effect of "Not
> enough random bytes available". Regardless of how much work I make the
> system do it doesn't seem to do anything more, GPG just sits there with a
> blank expression on its face.
>
> Some searches on the Web seem to indicate a possible patch to clock.c that
> may be the cause of this problem? What's of some concern to me is that all
> the threads around this issue seem to indicate that it should require no
> more than about 24 bytes of random data, but the message displayed indicates
> that 300 bytes more are required. This seems like an awful lot of random
> data.
>
> The messages above also seemed to indicate that a reboot may result in
> enough random data for a couple of email messages, but that seems pretty
> drastic.
>
> I realise that there are probably better places to search for this info, but
> I'm just getting into FreeBSD again and this is the first time I've been in
> a position where I can actively maintain a server that's online (admittedly
> not a particularly high profile one, but we've had a couple of people poking
> around already, nothing like learning on the job :)
>
> Regards
> James Greenfield
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