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by mike-cardwell
5179 days ago
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A Lenovo Thinkpad T420 with an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz, 8GB of RAM and an SSD. It's running Ubuntu 10.04, GnuPG 2.0.14, and a 3.2.0 Linux kernel. The laptop was relatively idle when the test was being run. It's worth noting that when you do a --gen-key it does output the message: "We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilise the disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number generator a better chance to gain enough entropy." I can't imagine it would state that if "5 seconds" was anything like normal. Perhaps you have some sort of additional source of entropy which you don't know about. |
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