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GPG keygen: Not enough random bytes available

     How to resolve the error (shown below) while generating RSA key using GPG on RHEL 

“Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 278 more bytes)" 

Open 3 different SSH Session to the server; 

Session 1 - >  type watch cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail 
[You can watch the entopy pool by observing the appropriate spot in the /proc system with this command. Make sure that you see the count increasing to more than 3000] 

Session 2 - > Run the command " ls -R / " from the second session 

Session 3 -> Run the Key Generation Command " gpg --gen-key " 
[Make sure that you start running the command " ls -R / " in parallel just after typing the Passphrase section.]

Once the test keys are generated please have the test keys remove from the Production Servers: 

How to list the available Keys on the Server: 
  • gpg --list-keys 
---------------------------See the results below------ ------------------------------------------
pub 2048R/D484AB62 2011-12-20 
uid AVINASH PILLAI (RSA test) <avinashp25@gmail.com>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------
How to deleted the generated Keys from the server: 
  • gpg --delete-secret-keys 
[ In this case the Key ID is D484AB62 ]
  • gpg --delete-keys 


Thanks & Regards
Avinash Pillai 
Email: avinashp25[AT]gmail[DOT]com
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