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Yes, but that's a reason not to use /dev/random, not a reason to install snake-oil products. The random(4) manpage is unfortunately exceptionally misleading, a
by jfindley 12y ago
Yes, but that's a reason not to use /dev/random, not a reason to install snake-oil products.
The random(4) manpage is unfortunately exceptionally misleading, and has sadly led to a small but non-zero numbers of products that try to use /dev/random rather than /dev/urandom.
Sadly, gpg --gen-key doesn't even give you this option - but that's (as noted above) another flaw in GPG.