Encryption with key ID

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Mon Jan 9 23:30:37 CET 2012


On 01/09/2012 01:41 PM, Remesh_Chandra at Dell.com wrote:
> I tried all those options; it generates the below error.
> 
> gpg: fatal: too many random bits requested; the limit is 4799
> secmem usage: 3008/3008 bytes in 5/5 blocks of pool 3200/16384
> 
> Any clues?

What operating system are you using?  What version of gpg?

It looks to me like "the limit is ..." was removed over 10 years ago --
are you using an up-to-date version of gpg?

http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=patch;h=0fa9ffe75c210cdc3d0e87744bbac08d1637ac84

	--dkg

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