Re: [tlug] Followup on mutt and gpg

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

Quoth Jonathan Byrne (Tue 2002-09-03 11:20:15PM +0900):
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 02:37:15PM +0900, Ulrich Plate wrote:
> 
> >Hawld on while my public key is being generated (phhhht, not enough 
> >entropy, whaddaya mean? 260 more bytes needed, wiggle your mouse?)
> 
> It means the key is not sufficiently random.  I would have dumped it
> and made another one.

Calm down there, Jonathan. When GPG is making a key, it *will not*
proceed without sufficient entropy, so it cannot create a weak key. It
will wait until you generate more entropy.

Hardware entropy devices usually do not give you "better entropy",
just "faster entropy". Of course, we have not yet settled on The Best
Entropy Algorithm (though the OpenBSOD guys, in typical fashion, claim
that theirs is plainly best)!


-- 
Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>

Associate Systems Administrator
INCOGEN, Inc.
http://www.incogen.com/

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