Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 14:55:30 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Brian Henning <b1henning@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gpg -random bytes Message-ID: <20021107205530.GC44158@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <OE24K5zQEevxcVeuuLt00000b5e@hotmail.com> References: <OE24K5zQEevxcVeuuLt00000b5e@hotmail.com>
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In the last episode (Nov 07), Brian Henning said: > hello- > > i have looked for a solution on google for this problem but i can't find > anything... > when i run: > gpg --gen-key > > i get this error: > Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give > the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 300 more bytes) > > can someone tell me how to get past this point? Make sure you have told FreeBSD to collect randomness info from its peripherals. Put this in /etc/rc.conf: rand_irqs="5 10 13" Replace the numbers with the IRQs of your disk and network devices (you can get these from dmesg), and reboot. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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