FS#30375 - Pacman-key --init: Entropy notice

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Henrik Juul Pedersen (henrikjuul) - Wednesday, 20 June 2012, 12:46 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 20 June 2012, 14:36 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
When initializing the pacman keyring, the process relies on GPG to use the "available system entropy", but the user is not notified of this.

The issue is especially apparent on headless machines, with only a few running processes, where it might take hours to generate enough entropy (if ever).
I was able to quickly generate enough entropy by running a 'du' command from / in another tty, other scripts or programs could also be applied.

My request is either:
- Notify users to "generate entropy", and possibly give a few ideas to how it's done.
- Automatically start random small background tasks, until enough entropy is reached
This task depends upon

Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Wednesday, 20 June 2012, 14:36 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#28027 
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Wednesday, 20 June 2012, 12:57 GMT
this is a shameless duplicate of https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28027
Comment by Henrik Juul Pedersen (henrikjuul) - Wednesday, 20 June 2012, 13:04 GMT
True, sorry about that, I forgot to check closed tasks/bugs.
I still think, though, that some information for the user would be appreciated instead of just updating the wiki, and that the feature request is still valid in that sense?

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