Re: [qubes-users] entropy for gpg

2017-07-30 Thread pixel fairy 
On Sunday, July 30, 2017 at 6:10:26 AM UTC-7, Sandy Harris wrote:
> pixel fairy wrote:
> 

> Debian has haveged(8) which might solve your problem.

yes, and its installed in the template by default. wiggling the mouse worked 
for a while, then stopped adding entropy. maxwell looks interesting. now im 
glad i posted this.

> I wrote a small program to solve this problem & the PDF doc discusses
> other solutions including havege.
> https://github.com/sandy-harris/maxwell

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Re: [qubes-users] entropy for gpg

2017-07-30 Thread Sandy Harris 
pixel fairy  wrote:

> just tried to make a gpg key to use with split-gpg and didnt have enough 
> entropy. the keygen dialog timed out. any suggestions on getting entropy into 
> an appvm. is there a service that can be enabled? a little game or something 
> good at generating entropy? ...

Many modern processors include a hardware RNG which should make it
impossible to run low on entropy. Some VM systems provide a service
driven by random(4) on the host that emulates a hardware RNG in each
client VM. I do not know what Qubes currently does, but if it does not
support that, it should.

> the appvm was based on debian-9

Debian has haveged(8) which might solve your problem.

I wrote a small program to solve this problem & the PDF doc discusses
other solutions including havege.
https://github.com/sandy-harris/maxwell

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