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[Kevin Sonney <alchemist AT darkcanvas.com>]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 01:16:30AM -0400, Thomas Beckett spoke thusly:
>          One question for starters:  to generate a new key, GPG needs a 
> string of random numbers, right?  Can a Wintel machine generate a reliably 
> random number?

In order to get reliably random numbers in wintel, typically a source
of entropy is needed. I'm not sure how GPG does it, but with PGP you
used to be asked to bang on the keyboard while it was generating. 

I'm guessing that GPG uses some other entropy gathering method,
though. I expect it's do-able, but would require some interesting hacks. 

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