VMs are notorious for having poor entropy gathering. You can mitigate this by installing haveged.
A > On 14 Mar 2016, at 20:02, Fabian Santiago <[email protected]> wrote: > > Technically yes. It's a hosted vps. > > Sincerely, > > Fabian Santiago > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Mar 14, 2016, at 3:40 PM, Andrew Gallagher <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> You're not running this on a VM by any chance? >> >> A >> >>> On 14 Mar 2016, at 19:27, Fabian Santiago <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> i have centos 7.2.x >>> >>> gpg v2.0.22 >>> >>> when i run it with --gen-key, it goes through the motions but on the final >>> step of collecting entropy, it simply hangs and does nothing and my new key >>> is not created. what can i check on this issue? >>> >>> - Fabian S. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gnupg-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
