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Date:      Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:17:45 -0700
From:      Ryan Mansager <rmger@nrez.net>
To:        wes chow <wes@woahnelly.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [questions] Re: pgp
Message-ID:  <20020410121745.A15391@beau.nrez.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020410142341.D11884-100000@hitchcock.woahnelly.net>; from wes@woahnelly.net on Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:27:33PM -0400
References:  <20020410154345.GJ2686@irrelevant.org> <20020410142341.D11884-100000@hitchcock.woahnelly.net>

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 i assume you're doing this remotely. banging on the keyboard doesn't
 work unless you're physically at the machine. Your best bet is to
 hammer your disk: `find / &` before you gpg --gen-key and you should be
 ok. there's lots of info about this via a simple google search,

 .ryan


On Wed, Apr 10 2002, wes chow wrote:

> 
> 
> 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
> >
> 
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