I'm guessing it's a bug, because we had the same problem. If nothing
else, the situation could be described by the software more clearly.
I generated my gpg key on linux a long time ago, and it has continued
to work. But when I worked with someone on setting up a new key for
their account, linux didn't work as we expected, but something else
did - I think it was irix or tru64.
I'd contact the gpg people to see if there's a problem with current
versions of gpg on linux.
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 05:46:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> No matter what I do I can't get gnupg to create keys. I always get a
> message that I'm short just under 300 bytes in the random buffer and gnupg
> wasn't able to generate the keys.
>
> I've tried pounding on the keyboard + running the mouse madly around the
> screen + doing a "find / -name doc" + compiling the kernel...and this is
> on a poor old 486 host!!! I still get the error message!!! I read in the
> FAQ that holding down the shift, control, and alt keys will fill up the
> buffer since they don't cause screen writes. That didn't work either.
>
> I've run out of hands to make things happen! What's the secret here???
>
> Gerry
>
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