1/27 Was anyone able to generate a gpg key on soda? I tried a couple of
times but everytime gpg starts generating key pair, it prints:
"Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give
the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 300 more bytes)",
and then sits forever without doing anything. I hit Ctrl-C after
four hours of waiting.
\_ if it were your local machine, you could wiggle your mouse,
but but I don't know what you could do on soda. maybe run
find /
\_ Soda is too predictable.
\_ I knew you'd say that.
\_ I knew you'd say that.
\_ I didn't know you'd say that!
\_ Don't use soda. Generate the key somewhere else and scp
it to soda.
\_ What's the point of that? Either way, you're exposing
your keystrokes on soda were it to be comprimised.
The best thing to do is to generate and use your key
on your local machine.
\_ I ment scp the public key to soda. I would never
put a private encryption key on soda.
\_ Which pretty much confirms my suspicions of how
little real utility PGP has for most of us
who don't operate from a "local machine" except
at work.
\_ I keep my public/private key pair on my
laptop with a copy of my public key on
soda. I encrypt all my sensitive messages
on my laptop and then send them using
soda. For normal messages, I just don't
bother.
If OP is interested in a DSA key, maybe
it would be okay to store the key pair
on soda.
\_ no it's not okay to store ssh keys on soda unless
you want to accept the risk that your key (and
the hosts where you login with it) could become
compromissed.
\_ we're talking about PGP here, not SSH.
fucking stay on fucking topic.
--jon
\_ I generate my keys by hand and transmit them using a one time pad
over S-IPV7.
\_ I write my keys out long-hand and leave them in the men's room
stalls. |