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Re: [tlug] Followup on mutt and gpg



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On Tuesday 03 September 2002 23:36, Josh Glover wrote:
> Quoth Jonathan Byrne (Tue 2002-09-03 11:20:15PM +0900):
> > On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 02:37:15PM +0900, Ulrich Plate wrote:
> > >Hawld on while my public key is being generated (phhhht, not enough
> > >entropy, whaddaya mean? 260 more bytes needed, wiggle your mouse?)
> >
> > It means the key is not sufficiently random.  I would have dumped it
> > and made another one.
>
> Calm down there, Jonathan. When GPG is making a key, it *will not*
> proceed without sufficient entropy, so it cannot create a weak key. It
> will wait until you generate more entropy.

Which was essentially the most fun in the process! Wiggling the mouse did it, 
I liked that! :-)

Thanks for all the help so far, I have to call it a day now. Will try to get 
everything perfectly RFC-wotsit compliant until the weekend as promised. 

Is there a GUI version of Mutt somewhere? 

Don't bother shouting, I'm already gone... :-)
Ulrich Plate
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