Problems with the gnupg 1.0.1 and FreeBSD 3.3

[Paul Dalton]

Hi Dennis,
    I get this a lot myself. I'm running gnupg on an old sparc 2 running
redhat 6.1 . I'm using this machine for development so its not doing
anything other than my telnet session usually. I get around this problem by
working on the console and bashing away at the keyboard frantically until
the key is generated. I also keep the key length down to 1024, which is
annoying to say the least. It took be a while to figure out that typing on
the keyboard from a remote session doesn't do any good, is this perhaps what
you are doing?

HTH

Paul.
----- Original Message -----
From: Dennis Tenn <dstenn@fanfic.org>
To: <gnupg-users@gnupg.org>
Cc: <dstenn@fanfic.org>; <dtenn@uu.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 7:12 AM
Subject: Problems with the gnupg 1.0.1 and FreeBSD 3.3


> I have 2 systems and in both case I'm getting stuck generating key pairs.
> I have exhausted my possibilities on www.gnupg.org as well as other gnupg
> pages.  I've also emailed the FreeBSD gnupg ports maintainer and asked
> this same question.  The two accounts I have are dstenn@fanfic.org and
> dtenn@uu.net.  I really hope you can help.
>
> I have successfully compiled and installed gnupg 1.0.1 but when I run
>
>  gpg --gen-key
>
> and answer all the questions I get stuck.  Here is the out put so far..
>
> [/home/dtenn]
> jpdata1:dtenn# gpg --gen-key
> gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.1; Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.
>
> gpg: /home/dtenn/.gnupg/secring.gpg: keyring created
> gpg: /home/dtenn/.gnupg/pubring.gpg: keyring created
> Please select what kind of key you want:
>    (1) DSA and ElGamal (default)
>    (2) DSA (sign only)
>    (4) ElGamal (sign and encrypt)
> Your selection? 1
> DSA keypair will have 1024 bits.
> About to generate a new ELG-E keypair.
> minimum keysize is  768 bits
> default keysize is 1024 bits
> highest suggested keysize is 2048 bits
> Requested keysize is 1024 bits
> Please specify how long the key should be valid.
>          0 = key does not expire
>       <n>  = key expires in n days
>       <n>w = key expires in n weeks
>       <n>m = key expires in n months
>       <n>y = key expires in n years
> Key is valid for? (0) 2y
> Key expires at Fri Apr 12 14:32:28 2002 JST
> Is this correct (y/n)? y
>
> You need a User-ID to identify your key; the software constructs the user
> id
> from Real Name, Comment and Email Address in this form:
>     "Heinrich Heine (Der Dichter) <heinrichh@duesseldorf.de>"
>
> Real name: Dennis Tenn
> Email address: dtenn@uu.net
> Comment:
> You selected this USER-ID:
>     "Dennis Tenn <dtenn@uu.net>"
>
> Change (N)ame, (C)omment, (E)mail or (O)kay/(Q)uit? o
> You need a Passphrase to protect your secret key.
>
> We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
> some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
> disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
> generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
>
+++++.++++++++++.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++.+++++++++++++++++++++++
+++++++++++++++++.+++++++++++++++.+++++++++++++++.++++++++++>++++++++++.>..+
++++....................................................+++++
>
> Not enough random bytes available.  Please do some other work to give
> the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 18 more bytes)
>
> Not enough random bytes available.  Please do some other work to give
> the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 2 more bytes)
>
> Not enough random bytes available.  Please do some other work to give
> the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 2 more bytes)
> We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
> some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
> disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
> generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
>
++++++++++..++++++++++.++++++++++..+++++..++++++++++++++++++++.++++++++++.++
+++.++++++++++++++++++++.++++++++++.++++++++++++++++++++....++++++++++..>+++
++...........................................................+++++^^^
>
> Not enough random bytes available.  Please do some other work to give
> the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 128 more bytes)
>
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