PGP: Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give the OS a chance to collect more entropy PGP: Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give the OS a chance to collect more entropy linux linux

PGP: Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give the OS a chance to collect more entropy


Run the following:

find / > /dev/null

That helped me quickly to complete my key generation.


Try installing haveged, this is a daemon, which helps the system with generating random numbers for your key.

sudo aptitude install haveged


Step 1Run on a shell first and let it runls / -R

Step 2Now try to generate the key it will be done

for more info followhttp://alsdias.blogspot.jp/2012/11/gpg-not-enough-random-bytes-available.html