Hi Max, I had a couple of idea while I was typing to generate keys in this fashion. Here they are in no particular order.
1) Make a game that involves typing, I was reminded of a game called Daley Thompson's Decathlon, which involved bashng two keys in turn as quickly as possible, while this wouldn't be good I thought some sort of game might be. Bear with mw while I outline an idea, Implement tetris (hmm, I'm not really volunteering for this bit.) then the user is making key presses, and is more happy to spend the time. The progress bar could be inverted to count down, then it is score as many points as possible before it runs out. Yeah it's probably not workable, but I thought it was quite fun anyway. 2) Use a source of entropy on another machine. There are sites (I forget the name, you probably know them), that provide entropy across the Internet. While I'm not that sure of the idea, it would solve the problem some what. 3) Allow randomness/key to be retrieved from elsewhere. Similar to preseeding, either grab a file of a disk or server that has entropy or the keys. Obviously it needs to be done right, but I think this should perhaps be done anyway to help with multiple installs. You can have the file in any format you like (cat /dev/random > file or actually create GPG encrypted keys), and provide a script to create one on a running machine. 4) Make d-i harder to use. If entropy is gathered during the install, it should be made harder, so that more key presses are required before partman-crypto is reached, and so increasing the entropy in the pool without the user realising it is for encryption. James -- James Westby -- GPG Key ID: B577FE13 -- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>|&7U.L#9E)Tu)T0>AM - secp256r1/nistp256 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
