[imp] Not possible to create PGP keys

Arjen de Korte arjen+horde at de-korte.org
Sun Aug 18 20:11:02 UTC 2013


Citeren aglandorf <aglandorf at aglmail.de>:

> Dear all,
>
> currently i try to switch to HGWE due to the fact that PGP can be used
> within a webbrowser.
> Also a nice feature is to have the option to generate the PGP keys directly
> on the server.
>
> Currently i tried to generate PGP keys 'online' with a lenght of 2048, but
> the creation process seems not to be finished at all.
> To check if it maybe browser related i tried it with IE and latest FF.
>
> Switching to 1024 seems to solve the issue, but i would prefer 2048 or 4096.
>
> Due to the fact that i have less experience with debugging i would really
> appreciate your help.

Generating PGP keys requires quite a bit of entropy. If generating a  
1024 bit key works, but 2048 bit or higher doesn't, it could be there  
is not enough entropy to finish the process in time.
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