aporter, The likely reason 'ls -R /' doesn't generate enough entropy for you is that the only thing going to be read from the filesystem is the contents of all the directories and perhaps some metadata on the files themselves, which in a minimal filesystem may not generate sufficient disk activity to capture enough entropy. Furthermore, your system may have enough RAM that your system may have already cached most of the directory tree into kernel memory, meaning that little disk activity is generated by this command.
When I need to generate entropy in one of my remote vms and I don't have access to an entropy key device, I usually do something like find /var/ /usr /lib /srv -type f -print0 | xargs -0 cat > /dev/null possibly within a loop (but the contents of my disk will be larger than the memory allocated to the VM, ensuring that performing the find command multiple times will continue to generate disk activity; the VM won't be able to cache all of the disk's contents in memory). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/706011 Title: gpg --key-gen doesn't have enough entropy and rng-tools install/start fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg/+bug/706011/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
