[OTR-users] Private key generation hangs indefinitely on Ubuntu 13.10

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On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Paul Wouters <paul at cypherpunks.ca> wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Chris Ballinger wrote:
>
>  Steps to reproduce:
>>
>> 1) Install Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit in VMware Fusion 5.0.3 w/ VMware Tools for
>> Linux on Mac OS 10.9 (Mavericks)
>> 2) Install Pidgin 2.10.7 and pidgin-otr 4.0.0 through Ubuntu Software
>> Center
>> 3) Attempt to generate a private key for any account
>>
>> It looks like this is a long standing bug in Debian/Ubuntu that may be
>> related to libgcrypt's key generation routines getting
>> blocked on reads from /dev/random or /dev/urandom.
>>
>
> Look more simply that you VM does not get enough entropy from the host
> OS.
>

I'll second that - I had a similar issue with OTR key generation not
happening on a QubesOS AppVM - forcing the VM do some work with dd
if=/dev/urandom of=junk made key generation get "unstuck" and done within
seconds.

Alex
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