Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give... ???

[alexus]

i also was trying to hit lots of keys .. and i waited for about an hour for
something to happened... and nothing happened:(

----- Original Message -----
From: "redmist" <redmist@pacbell.net>
To: "alexus" <ml@db.nexgen.com>
Cc: <gnupg-users@gnupg.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to
give... ???


> Move the mouse around, hit random keys on the keyboard, start reading
> and writing data to the disk.  This increases the entropy in the entropy
> pool.
>
> redmist
>
> alexus wrote:
>
> >i'm trying to generate new key and i'm geting this
> >
> >Not enough random bytes available.  Please do some other work to give
> >the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 300 more bytes)
> >
> >what do I do?
> >
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