Encrypting with a venders public key

[David R. Bergstein]

Maybe someone on this list can correct me but the error you reported may
mean an entropy gathering daemon (EGD) is not installed on your platform or
you need to point gpg to a different keyring using the --homedir option.

David R. Bergstein
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Key fingerprint = C86E CA2A 4171 AC73 91D7  3DCE 8832 D764 E1F1 38CA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnupg-users-admin@gnupg.org [mailto:gnupg-users-admin@gnupg.org]On
> Behalf Of Mestack, Jim B.
> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 10:36 AM
> To: 'gnupg-users@gnupg.org'
> Subject: Encrypting with a venders public key
> Importance: High
>
>
> Hello, I am new to gpg, and have a July 1 deadline.  We have just
> installed
> it on an HPUX machine.
>
> I have downloaded one of our vendors public key's and --import fine.
>
> But when I attempt to encrypt a file using their key, I get the following
> error:
> gpg -r securekey --always-trust -o 20020627.gpg -e 20020627.opt
>
> gpg: fatal: can't connect to `/home/meuser/.gnupg/entropy': No
> such file or
> diry
> secmem usage: 2400/2400 bytes in 5/5 blocks of pool 2400/16384
>
> Can someone please help identify what this means and what I need to do to
> get it functioning.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James Mestack
> Interface Programmer/Analyst
> Cloverleaf, Datagate, Visual Basic, Cerner Millennium
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