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Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:21:44 +0200
From: Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xs4all.nl>
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To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: possible BUG while doing gpg --gen-key
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Adrian Bunk wrote:
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> Is CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIA enabled in your kernel?
> If yes, does disabling it help?

I disabled rngd.
I disabled audio-entropyd.
netdev-random remained in effect.

Now it works:

(...)
Change (N)ame, (C)omment, (E)mail or (O)kay/(Q)uit? O
You need a Passphrase to protect your secret key.

We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.

Not enough random bytes available.  Please do some other work to give
the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 44 more bytes)
We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.

public and secret key created and signed.

pub   1024D/4A87572B 2007-08-25
      Key fingerprint = 534F A772 774A 9C7D E10B  FCBF A28E 233F 4A87 572B
uid                  root! <root@localhost>
sub   2048g/E1BCAD7A 2007-08-25


It even complains about a lack of entropy.
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