how to debug --gen-key on Android

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at guardianproject.info
Thu May 9 19:43:23 CEST 2013


Turns out it was an issue in our pinentry-android implementation that just
made it look like the generation process was taking forever.

.hc

On 05/02/2013 07:33 PM, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Thu,  2 May 2013 22:34, hans at guardianproject.info said:
> 
>> --gen-key.  The setup process works fine, but once it starts generating, it
>> never seems to get any entropy.  I left one overnight and it never printed a
>> single dot even.
> 
> Is there another process draining entropy; i.e. are there any other
> processes reading from /dev/random or /dev/urandom?
> 
> 
> Shalom-Salam,
> 
>    Werner
> 
> 



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