GNUpg v1.01/FreeBSD-20000214-CURRENT

[Rémi Guyomarch]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 09:11:15AM -0600, Marius Strom wrote:
> Frank,
> I gave it 30 minutes last night while doing lots of things.  No change,
> except it started regenerating data and then requested 128 more bytes of
> entropy.
> 
> (Celeron 500.. Would hope gpg keygen wouldn't take 30 mins)

GPG didn't do anything in these 30 minutes, it simply waited for random data
to become available from /dev/random.
If you're working locally, FreeBSD should collect random data from your
typing, but if you're working from an ssh session, the box won't have a good
source of entropy to fill /dev/random.
You can add 
	rand_irqs="14"
to you /etc/rc.conf to use IRQ 14 (IDE) or your SCSI card IRQ as a source of
random data. See random(4) and /etc/defaults/rc.conf. I don't think that
using your network card IRQ is really secure.