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

[alexus]

let's see

I have Celeron 700mhz w/ 256mb ram

alexus           pb       162.83.167.196:S Sun09PM  2:32 gpg --gen-key

it's doing for 2 and a half hour already...

and i still see

Not enough random bytes available.  Please do some other work to give
the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 300 more bytes)
:(


----- Original Message -----
From: "redmist" <redmist@pacbell.net>
To: "alexus" <ml@db.nexgen.com>
Cc: "David Champion" <dgc@uchicago.edu>; <gnupg-users@gnupg.org>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 12:30 AM
Subject: Re: Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to
give... ???


> Another relevant couple of questions would be:
>
> - How fast is your machine (CPU speed, memory, etc)?
> - What size key are you generating?
>
> I had to be quite patient on my dual Celeron 366Mhz->533Mhz, 128MB @
> 96Mhz generating a 4096 bit key.  This is normal (although it shouldn't
> take 54 minutes).
>
> redmist
>
> alexus wrote:
>
> >FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "David Champion" <dgc@uchicago.edu>
> >To: "alexus" <ml@db.nexgen.com>
> >Cc: <gnupg-users@gnupg.org>
> >Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 11:04 PM
> >Subject: Re: Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work
to
> >give... ???
> >
> >
> >>On 2001.07.01, in <005301c102a2$dd32b550$0100a8c0@alexus>,
> >>"alexus" <ml@db.nexgen.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>what else do i need to do to make it happened???
> >>>
> >>What OS are you using?  Windows, Linux, Unix (what brand)?  This is
> >>rather relevant.
> >>
> >>--
> >> -D. dgc@uchicago.edu NSIT University of Chicago
> >>
> >
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