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

[alexus]

dude

i'm tellin you

i have one session that downloads iso file for over an hour now
and i have another session with gpg --gen-key for 54 minutes now

and i'm compileing some other stuff in other windows

not to mention that i have quite a few users on my box and they all doing
their stuff

what else do i need to do to make it happened???

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Scott" <ian@pairowoodies.com>
To: "alexus" <ml@db.nexgen.com>; <redmist@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: <gnupg-users@gnupg.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 9:55 PM
Subject: RE: Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to
give... ???


> 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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