Haveged solved my issue. Worked instantly after installation. Understood about my vps' comprised state.
This is for testing. My server published keys were indeed created under my own full control. Sincerely, Fabian Santiago Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 14, 2016, at 4:47 PM, Andrew Gallagher <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
