Re: generating gpg keys
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 08:12:43PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> > On generating gpg keys, how can one go about getting enough entropy on
> > one's own machine? I tried generating it on a server I have co-located
> > with my ISP, so at least it would have some network traffic and some
> > web serving as entropy but that will still not enough; 14 bytes short
> > once, 123 the next. I don't think it would ever be possible on my
> > home machine. va & master don't have gpg installed, and on the Solaris
> > undergrad server at university, gpg is unable to lock memory hence
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
> I got this warning on linux (2.0.34) too :<
Odd; I don't. On Solaris,
[12:21pm] moffatt@yallara[~] gpg --gen-key
gpg (GNUPG) 0.3.1; Copyright (C) 1998 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.
gpg: can´t lock memory: Invalid argument
Then:
You need a User-ID to identify your key; the software constructs the user id
from Real Name, Comment and Email Address in this form:
"Heinrich Heine (Der Dichter) <heinrichh@duesseldorf.de>"
Real name: Hamish Moffatt
Email address: hamish@debian.org
Comment:
You selected this USER-ID:
"Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> (INSECURE!)"
Edit (N)ame, (C)omment, (E)mail or (O)kay?
This doesn't happen on Debian/Linux 2.0.34 for me.
> If found if you just let it sit it eventually goes on, took about 10 mins
> or so.
OK thanks.
Hamish
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