I was never able to generate GPG or ssh public/private personal keys because of
the lack of entropy on my basically idle system. I had to generate all of the
personal keys down on my PC and upload them for use under Linux or z/OS.

/Tom Kern

--- Arty Ecock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>    I tried to use gpg today to generate a pgp key on SLES9x.  The process
> hangs while reading from /dev/random (which is lacking entropy).  Hasn't
> this whole /dev/random (and /dev/urandom) thing been beaten to death?  Does
> anyone else use gpg on s390x?
> 
> Cheers,
> Arty
> 
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