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I remember first trying out PGP in the early 1990s on a 80386 or 80486 on Linux and it took forever to generate a new key.
by throw0101b 2y ago
I remember first trying out PGP in the early 1990s on a 80386 or 80486 on Linux and it took forever to generate a new key.
- sva_ 2y agoIf you try to generate a PGP key using GPG on a fresh Linux system, it may flatout refuse to do so claiming there is not sufficient entropy. Or at least it was like that some years ago.
- Jerrrry 2y agoOn a millisecond old, virtual machine, sure.
- sliken 2y agoAs a result they added a "type into this buffer" to add entropy, which used what you typed and the timing of the keystrokes to help. Similarly graphical UIs say "draw in this region" for similar boost to randomness that helps avoid lack of entropy problems.