GNUpg v1.01/FreeBSD-20000214-CURRENT

[Frank Tobin]

Marius Strom, at 01:29 on Wed, 23 Feb 2000, wrote:

> gpg --gen-key runs somewhat fine on the aforementioned FreeBSD system, but
> when it goes to generate the random bytes, it says "Not enough random
> bytes available.  Please do some other work to give
> the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 20 more bytes)"

You just need to wait this out.  Give it a couple minutes.  Doing
intensive things on your system helps to increase the data available to
/dev/random.

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Frank Tobin		http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/

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