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"How to create a lot of entropy for GPG key generation from command line"

look at this blog title

it's so fucking stupid that it should be enough of an argument for anyone to use urandom

making a gpg key takes 15 minutes

the regular fix is to run a daemon that will pump trash into your entropy pool

because someone was too lazy to add an option to use urandom or use the sane choice by default and no one fixed it in a decade

because gpg is an awful piece of shit

Sebastian @webmind

@CobaltVelvet are you suggesting it's a good idea to use urandom for key generation?

@webmind not only suggesting, then saying not doing so is a gross mistake