On Aug 13, 2014, at 4:20 PM, Bill HT <[email protected]> wrote:

> We are on HP-UX ver 11.11 U 9000/800. GnuPG 2 was installed at 
> /usr/local/bin, we have to call it with the at path to do anything with it: 
> /usr/local/bin/gpg2. I can list keys and import keys. However, when trying to 
> generate keys or encrypt, we get this error: "no entropy gathering module 
> detected”. I was under the impression that EGD is part of GPG, is there some 
> reason why it isn’t seeing it? Or is it just not there?

While GPG can make use of an EGD, EGD is not part of GPG.

That said, I'm not very familiar with HP-UX, but I was under the impression 
that 11.11 either had, or could download a package from HP, that gives you a 
true /dev/random (which GPG can then use).  Have you read 
http://newfdawg.com/SSHpart5.htm ?

David


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