entropy

Jacob Solomon jacob@oztechsystems.com
Wed Apr 16 05:19:02 2003


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I have a problem with running out of entropy when using gpg. The system is
Solaris 8, with /dev/random and /dev/urandom installed, and using gpg 1.2.1.
When I am using a single script, which continually encrypt files every
minute, all is working well. However, when I fire up three scripts to
encrypt files, after a while I get the following error:

gpg: note: random_seed file is empty

Here is the actual command I am using to encrypt the files:

# gpg --batch --armor --cipher-algo AES192 --passphrase-fd 0 --symmetric
file_name < cipher_file

Any ideas for workaround/solutions?

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