Win32 gpg --gen-key never finish

Samphan Raruenrom samphan at actiwhiz.com
Wed Mar 23 15:22:07 CET 2005


I try using Win32 Gnu GPG 1.4.0 and 1.4.1 to do 'gpg --gen-key'
using the default setting. The generation process rarely ever finish.
Most of the time the generation process run and never finish.

8<------------------------------------------------------------------------->8
gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.1; Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Please select what kind of key you want:
    (1) DSA and Elgamal (default)
    (2) DSA (sign only)
    (5) RSA (sign only)
Your selection?
DSA keypair will have 1024 bits.
ELG-E keys may be between 1024 and 4096 bits long.
What keysize do you want? (2048)
Requested keysize is 2048 bits
Please specify how long the key should be valid.
          0 = key does not expire
       <n>  = key expires in n days
       <n>w = key expires in n weeks
       <n>m = key expires in n months
       <n>y = key expires in n years
Key is valid for? (0)
Key does not expire at all
Is this correct? (y/N) y

You need a user ID to identify your key; the software constructs the user ID
from the Real Name, Comment and Email Address in this form:
     "Heinrich Heine (Der Dichter) <heinrichh at duesseldorf.de>"

Real name: Samphan Raruenrom
Email address: samphan at access.inet.co.th
Comment:
You selected this USER-ID:
     "Samphan Raruenrom <samphan at access.inet.co.th>"

Change (N)ame, (C)omment, (E)mail or (O)kay/(Q)uit? o
You need a Passphrase to protect your secret key.

We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++.+++++.+++++.++++++++++.+++++++++++++++++++++++++
....+++++.++++++++++..+++++.....................>+++++...................................+++++

8<-------------------------------------------------------------->8
The output stop here and never continue. I tried using the disk, 
keyboard, mouse.
I can't make gpg to finish generating keys.
I happen to have cygwin and cygwin version of gpg works.

Are there anything wrong with the Win32 version of GPG? or my setting?


-- 
_/|\_ Samphan Raruenrom.




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