[CentOS] How can I automate random bytes generation for CENTOS 5.2?

Ralph Angenendt ra+centos at br-online.de
Thu Jul 10 14:00:00 UTC 2008


Tolun ARDAHANLI wrote:
> It can be created every second... Cause we do not know when the users want
> to create these own keys...

Then they have to wait - or look why your system doesn't have a big
enough entropy pool.

What does cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail say?

You need a enough "randomness" to create gpg keys.

Ralph
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