PGP: Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give the OS a chance to collect more entropy
Setup : Ubuntu Server on Virtual Machine with 6 cores and 3GB of RAM. when I am trying to generate a asymmetric key pair via GPG like this gpg --gen-key . I get the following error : Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give the OS a chance to collect more entropy! I tried to google a little bit. This is what I realise , I need to fire up another terminal and type in cat /udev/random --> It randomly generates a series of randomly generated values to increase the entropy. I dont see any change in here watch cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail and it still