gnupg doesn't create new keys

[Andrew Gallagher]

VMs are notorious for having poor entropy gathering. You can mitigate this by installing haveged.

A

> On 14 Mar 2016, at 20:02, Fabian Santiago <fsantiago at garbage-juice.com> wrote:
> 
> Technically yes. It's a hosted vps. 
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Fabian Santiago
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Mar 14, 2016, at 3:40 PM, Andrew Gallagher <andrewg at andrewg.com> wrote:
>> 
>> You're not running this on a VM by any chance?
>> 
>> A
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>>> On 14 Mar 2016, at 19:27, Fabian Santiago <fsantiago at garbage-juice.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> i have centos 7.2.x
>>> 
>>> gpg v2.0.22
>>> 
>>> when i run it with --gen-key, it goes through the motions but on the final step of collecting entropy, it simply hangs and does nothing and my new key is not created. what can i check on this issue?
>>> 
>>> - Fabian S.
>>> 
>>> 
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