Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:08:03 +0000 From: Thomas Hurst <freaky@aagh.net> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: ports/32694: security/gnupg fails to generate keys Message-ID: <E16Dmdf-000PsG-00@voi.aagh.net>
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>Number: 32694
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: security/gnupg fails to generate keys
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-ports
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Dec 11 05:10:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Thomas Hurst
>Release: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
None whatsoever
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD voi.freak.lan 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Sun Nov 11 19:47:37 GMT 2001 root@sploo.freak.lan:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SPLOO i386
(Yes, I renamed my machine, although maybe my first choice of
'ione' would be better :)
The system is monitor and keyboard-less.
>Description:
gpg --gen-key always ends up sitting there with:
We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
[snip]
Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give
the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 300 more bytes)
Despite a constant stream of random data from /dev/random, and
leaving it there 10 minutes.
Even doing a find / and exporting X sessions doesn't help
(although the progress display proceeds further in this case).
Similar tools, such as ssh-keygen have no problems.
>How-To-Repeat:
gpg --gen-key, answer prompts
>Fix:
Don't use encryption, only terrorists use encryption!!!!!111
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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