[cs615asa] hw4

[Jan Schaumann]

Sean Winard <swinard at stevens.edu> wrote:
 
> Just having some trouble actually generating an RSA key in gpg on the 
> lab machines.  I get all the way through the menu to where it's trying 
> to generate the key and needs random input (usually ~300bytes), and then 
> it just stays there.  I've tried typing stuff for about 2 minutes to 
> 'increase entropy' but still nothing.

A few ways to increase entropy on a system:

- do file I/O:
  - copy large files from one partition to another
  - crawl the directory hierarchy, for example via find
- do network I/O:
  - copy large files from one host to this host
- user input
  - move the mouse (if you're connected to the actual host in question)
  - type on the keyboard

You should be able to find other suggestions by searching the internet
for the specific error message you encountered.

-Jan
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