[Tickets #2672] IMP hangs in creation of new key-pairs with GPG

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=2672
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 Ticket             | 2672
 Updated By         | Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
 Summary            | IMP hangs in creation of new key-pairs with GPG
 Queue              | IMP
 Version            | 4.0.4-RC2
 State              | Feedback
 Priority           | 1. Low
 Type               | Bug
 Owners             | 
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Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> (2005-09-24 04:12) wrote:

> I started the generation process and closed the window by accident. 
> The time I gained by that was good to eat something.
> ~20 minutes passed and I logged in again to start the process again - 
> to my surprise there were the keys!

The only explanation I have is that there is not enough entropy on the
server. Is there anything running on that server, more users being logged in
etc.?

> - Advise the user to go eating something while generating takes place

This shouldn't happen on a sane system.

> - or display a popup with GPG's output in order to show him the status.

This is probably not possible with PHP.