In the last episode (Nov 07), Brian Henning said:
> hello-
>
> i have looked for a solution on google for this problem but i can't find
> anything...
> when i run:
> gpg --gen-key
>
> i get this error:
> Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give
> the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 300 more bytes)
>
> can someone tell me how to get past this point?
Make sure you have told FreeBSD to collect randomness info from its
peripherals. Put this in /etc/rc.conf:
rand_irqs="5 10 13"
Replace the numbers with the IRQs of your disk and network devices (you
can get these from dmesg), and reboot.
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Dan Nelson
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