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--></style></head><body lang=ZH-CN link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I have tried many suggestions on the internet and none worked.</span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I have finally generated the key pair on another system and then exported/imported the keys.</span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I hope that my experience may save some time and effort of other fellows.</span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Regards</span>，</p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Shaoping</span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>发送自<span lang=EN-US> Windows 10 </span>版<span lang=EN-US><a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986"><span lang=EN-US><span lang=EN-US>邮件</span></span></a></span>应用</p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0cm'><b>发件人<span lang=EN-US>: </span></b><span lang=EN-US><a href="mailto:sp_xie@yahoo.com">Shaoping Xie</a><br></span><b>发送时间<span lang=EN-US>: </span></b><span lang=EN-US>2019</span>年<span lang=EN-US>3</span>月<span lang=EN-US>31</span>日<span lang=EN-US> 8:43<br></span><b>收件人<span lang=EN-US>: </span></b><span lang=EN-US><a href="mailto:gnupg-users@gnupg.org">gnupg-users@gnupg.org</a><br></span><b>主题<span lang=EN-US>: </span></b><span lang=EN-US>Two questions about system entropy and update </span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Good Morning ,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:11.25pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>I have been tried to generate a key pair and gotten the error :<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:11.25pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:11.25pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red'>Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:11.25pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red'>the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 300 more bytes)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:11.25pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:11.25pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>It seems that the error is very common by googling the internet . However, none of recommendations has worked and helped . <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:11.25pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>I am using Solaris 10 X86 system . I had generated the key pair without any problem before . Can some experts explain why I have suddenly had this problem ? Does it help if I remove the old key pair ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:11.25pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>(I had tried to run the key generation while running iostat, mpstat and using find in other windows. Is there any way I may view the system entropy in Solaris system ?)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:11.25pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:11.25pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>My GPG is pretty old :<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:11.25pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.10; Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:11.25pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>How can I update GPG ? I have the file transfers with dozens of clients, which are essential for business . The update cannot affect the current public/private keys . Is it safe to upgrade on the current system or I have to build a new system ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:11.25pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Can the new version solve the problem with system entropy ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:11.25pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:11.25pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:11.25pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Shaoping <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:11.25pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>