Hi, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos: > > Why does not it generate a private key? I suppose there is > > something regarding /dev/random ?? > Hello, > /dev/random is needed to seed the random number generator. It seems > that in your system the /dev/random is broken.
/dev/random is blocking because it oesn't get random bits from anywhere.
For networked computers, the most likely error source is a broken
Ethernet driver. For computers you're sitting in front of, just switch
to a different terminal an bang a few keys. ;-)
> Check if it is a problem
> with your kernel version. Alternatively you can compile libgcrypt with
> a different random generator such as egd or the unix one.
>
If all else fails, use /dev/urandom, which uses an internal hash
function instead of blocking when it runs out of bits. I'd say that for
most if not all uses, /dev/urandom is perfectly OK.
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