On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 11:51:09AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On generating gpg keys, how can one go about getting enough entropy on > one's own machine?
I found it sufficient to scan in pictures of my room. It's a bit messy and certainly carries enough entropy in it to serve the whole Debian developer base and maybe the users, too. Look for the pictures at http://www.trashdot.org/myroom.jpg. Marcus PS: Reading loud the windows 95 source code in front of your computer may also help, if you can get a copy. PPS: You can see how the entropy is floating with "cat /dev/random|od -w1". This also proofs that pressing random keys really helps (for example shift+alt+control). -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
