On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:18:11PM +1100, Mark Hepburn wrote:
> Has anyone else had any trouble with key generation for gpg?
>
> I'm using a reva imac; I've tried different sizes and types of keys, and do
> lots of typing, mouse moving, try to give the hard disk stuff to do, etc, but
> it still complains about not having enough entropy and needing another 2-300
> bytes (and then appears to hang).
This is a known issue. PowerPCs are built too well, and don't gain
disorder as fast as, say, i386 does.
If this doesn't do it
find / >/tmp/out & rm /tmp/out; lynx http://web.slashdot.org/
then take a baseball bat to it to add lots of entropy. Maybe too much.
Really, keyboard input usually does it. I made my key on a PowerBook,
but the keyboard isn't USB, there. Try lots of network activity and a
few finds redirected to temporary files, but I don't know if network and
disk IO touch the /dev/random code.
- chad
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"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced".
First corollary to Clarke's Third Law (Jargon File, v4.2.0, 'magic')
