Re: How insecure is using /dev/random for entropy generation?

2013-03-30 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 3/30/2013 9:50 PM, Anthony Papillion wrote: > I meed to generate a new key and want to make sure I create enough > entropy to make the key secure. My normal method is to type on the > keyboard, start large programs, etc. But a friend suggested that I use > /dev/random. > > Is this suitable for

Re: How insecure is using /dev/random for entropy generation?

2013-03-30 Thread Hauke Laging
Am Sa 30.03.2013, 20:50:48 schrieb Anthony Papillion: > I meed to generate a new key and want to make sure I create enough > entropy to make the key secure. My normal method is to type on the > keyboard, start large programs, etc. But a friend suggested that I use > /dev/random. gpg uses /dev/ran

How insecure is using /dev/random for entropy generation?

2013-03-30 Thread Anthony Papillion
Hello Everyone, I meed to generate a new key and want to make sure I create enough entropy to make the key secure. My normal method is to type on the keyboard, start large programs, etc. But a friend suggested that I use /dev/random. Is this suitable for creating a PGP key? I've got concerns. Th

Re: GnuPG Crashing on Windows 8

2013-03-30 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:13:17 +0400 Kristine Concha articulated: > GnuPG is crashing on my Windows 8 machine: > Gpg4win > Version 2.1.0 > Kleopatra > Version 2.1.0 > Using KDE 4.1.4 Please do not use HTML format with a mailing list. It makes replying to a post a lot harder than it needs to be. Yo

Re: Mail-Followup-To

2013-03-30 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 03:20, j...@berklix.com said: > A person at my site regularly uses an EXMH on a slow X display > started from xdm, with AMD + NFS ~/mail/ on a faster server, works fine. Slow in the mid 90ies was an ISDN data rate and a high latency due to too many hops. It was barely impossi