Subject: Re: gnupg again
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang+gnus20010725T171923@wsrcc.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/25/2001 17:23:18
emre@vsrc.uab.edu (Emre Yildirim) writes:
> I posted this question a few weeks ago, regarding GnuPG not being
> able to generate keys due to lack of random data.  I still don't
> know what to do.  Here is what I get:

I installed gpg and got the same wait.  Just be patient it will
eventually get enough random state.

(If you really want to force it you can try using /dev/urandom instead
of /dev/random, but the quality of the random numbers will suffer.)

-wolfgang
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