Creating more entropy…

Yeayea, the universe does that all on its own, all the time. But on a headless box, it’s rather difficult to make tools like gpg happy (in the case of gpg, for –gen-key). While googling for a possible solution, I came across this little gem: rngd -r /dev/urandom (in the rng-tools package). Instant success, lots of entropy!

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