[solved] gpg>lsign unresponsive

San2ban · 2012-02-29 15:18:44

[root@KRISHNA san2ban]# # pacman-key --edit-key 0x6AC6A4C2
[root@KRISHNA san2ban]# gpg>lsign
^C
gpg: Interrupt caught ... exiting

[root@KRISHNA san2ban]# # pacman-key --init
[root@KRISHNA san2ban]# # pacman-key --edit-key 0x824B18E8
[root@KRISHNA san2ban]# gpg>lsign

Even after a long time, nothing happens. Suggestions

Last edited by San2ban (2012-03-01 15:12:20)

Gcool · 2012-02-29 17:48:18

It's actually 2 different commands (or subcommand or whatever you want to call it). So you first just run "gpg" to get into the gpg shell and then you type "lsign".

San2ban · 2012-03-01 14:04:02

[root@KRISHNA san2ban]# gpg
gpg: Go ahead and type your message ...
lsign

Same situation

San2ban · 2012-03-01 14:54:04

Fed-up, reloaded pacman. Now, a new error

[root@KRISHNA ~]# pacman-key --init
gpg: /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
gpg: Generating pacman keychain master key...

Not enough random bytes available.  Please do some other work to give
the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 279 more bytes)

It is asking me to do some other work! What do I do?

San2ban · 2012-03-01 14:55:17

Fed-up, reloaded pacman. Now, a new error

[root@KRISHNA ~]# pacman-key --init
gpg: /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
gpg: Generating pacman keychain master key...

Not enough random bytes available.  Please do some other work to give
the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 279 more bytes)

It is asking me to do some other work! What do I do?

San2ban · 2012-03-01 15:11:52

removed everything in 'gnupg' folder, re-installed pacman, ran pacman-key--init, followed wiki. Every thing works

/dev/zero · 2012-03-01 16:37:55

San2ban wrote:

removed everything in 'gnupg' folder, re-installed pacman, ran pacman-key--init, followed wiki. Every thing works

At least two other threads I know of have covered the entropy generating issue.

To have secure encryption, your computer needs a pool of randomness to draw on. It's called an entropy pool. You can generate entropy by doing stuff on your computer. For example, the times between keystrokes when typing can be modelled as a stochastic process, which will eventually give you all the entropy you need.

When you're doing cryptographic activities and receive the message to do more work to generate entropy, well, that message is there for a reason. Just do something else for a while, and the message will eventually go away.

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#1 2012-02-29 15:18:44

[solved] gpg>lsign unresponsive

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