gnupg doesn't create new keys

[Fabian Santiago]

Haveged solved my issue. Worked instantly after installation.

Understood about my vps' comprised state.

This is for testing. My server published keys were indeed created under my own full control. 

Sincerely,

Fabian Santiago

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> On Mar 14, 2016, at 4:47 PM, Andrew Gallagher <andrewg at andrewg.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
>>> 
>>>> 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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