[OTR-users] OTR delay time

[Ian Goldberg]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 01:08:26AM -0400, Torrey McMahon wrote:
> I've been using OTR for awhile and I've noticed that whenever I get the 
> first OTR request since pidgin started up the entire app freezes for a 
> few seconds. Anyone else seeing that?

Depending on your platform, it could be that the random number generator
is being initialized for the first time; libgcrypt is gathering entropy
from various parts of your system so that it can choose hard-to-guess
cryptographic keys.

   - Ian