Re: can't generate key pair

2024-06-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
It takes some time to time out. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Tue, 18 Jun 2024, tippfehlr wrote: > Did you already try to create a key with a fresh ~/.gnupg, eg. move > ~/.gn

Re: can't generate key pair

2024-06-18 Thread tippfehlr
Did you already try to create a key with a fresh ~/.gnupg, eg. move ~/.gnupg to ~/.gnupg.bak and try again? If that works, you can narrow it down to the config. After entering the password, gpg generates the random bytes and prints to use the system to gain entropy, so it’s likely that part that i

Re: can't generate key pair

2024-06-15 Thread based department official
i had the same issue (but the command was gpg , not gpg2 for me), and i solved it by deleting a 'lockfile' in the ~/.gnupg directory Ekkor: 2024. június 15. 13:03:11 CEST, Jude DaShiell írta: >gpg2 --full-gen-key >breaks shortly after pass key is entered twice generating a Timeout error. >I trie

can't generate key pair

2024-06-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
gpg2 --full-gen-key breaks shortly after pass key is entered twice generating a Timeout error. I tried this with complex and simple keys and gpg2 times out in both cases. Would a configuration change help here? -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury