Arty Ecock wrote:
>    I tried to use gpg today to generate a pgp key on SLES9x.  The process
> hangs while reading from /dev/random (which is lacking entropy).  Hasn't
> this whole /dev/random (and /dev/urandom) thing been beaten to death?  Does
> anyone else use gpg on s390x?
Our major source of entropy is the dasd, we don't have a mouse you can
move around or a keyboard attached to the "console" on s390. Do some
I/O to get more entropy ;-).

Carsten
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Carsten Otte has stopped smoking 2 months, 4 weeks and 15 hours ago.
He would have spent 430.31 Euro to buy 1,792.98 cigarettes by now.

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