-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/30/2013 10:46 PM, Hauke Laging wrote: [snip] > gpg uses /dev/random. That's why key generation usually blocks due > to lack of entropy if you do it right and boot a secure medium for > key generation. > > The kernel fills /dev/random from e.g. key strokes, disk accesses, > and (if available and configured) internal CPU state (havaged) or a > real hardware number generator. The kernel should take care that > the entropy in /dev/random is "perfect". > > The amount of available entropy can be seen in > /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
I run RHEL 6. Last reboot (had to run Windows for a little while) was a little over 6 days ago. I tried that and got: $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail 1849 Is that a lot or a little? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRWA/9AAoJEBZthAoMYQyLK2IH/23tmS71RlUq1zlmQozvL4Mn 8N0Wbfj3uLuIOPOt9il0oApkdmZsOseZtp6XsF0OxtMHjuOdU9d83cKb+jzZE8Ee oeno2/eRH09z/xIigUA7bYcS14gYq/WFV18Jnk6eez2BeAK8UsVva6GBI2aFi6QX jphnprCdCfe/52yA9iS89S3zPrtShIMQnW3gL6iZr+bTiGjloEFGVpZv8rc4eAwv aW76WOSck38E9L+mE1OeQ1eHEVWz68sbWQEjN3evOdPT1MvlgSBwvCLBTCJF2LPQ y58tPHgkb3T1/k/K/sIasehniS3GdF+PAsbhDO5oZ5BJU2AUvJZR+gpisXQ/9L8= =hKVy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
