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Re: [Help-gnutls] generate a privite key
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Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos |
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Re: [Help-gnutls] generate a privite key |
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Fri, 6 Jan 2006 11:26:14 +0100 |
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On Friday 06 January 2006 08:37, Dzmitry Pashkouski wrote:
> Generating a private key...
> Generating a 1024 bit RSA private key...
> And nothing else happens. It stucks. I have to cancel the
> program.
> 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. 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.
--
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos