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

[Ian Scott]

Just keeping do ls command a bunch of times, open another telnet window and
run top.. just run a bunch of commands, send some emails to yourself over
and over: /usr/sbin/sendmail you@yourname < filename

In short, do some work! :)


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnupg-users-admin@gnupg.org [mailto:gnupg-users-admin@gnupg.org]On
> Behalf Of alexus
> Sent: July 1, 2001 9:02 PM
> To: redmist@users.sourceforge.net
> Cc: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
> Subject: Re: Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other
> work to give... ???
>
>
> what if i'm not by console?
>
> ----- 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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