[Cialug] gpg and urandom problems

[Chris K.]

My team has been fighting this issue for quite some time.  I am hoping =
one
of you will have some insite:

gpg --gen-key
gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.1; Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory!
gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information
Please select what kind of key you want:
(1) DSA and ElGamal (default)
(2) DSA (sign only)
(5) RSA (sign only)
Your selection?
DSA keypair will have 1024 bits.
About to generate a new ELG-E keypair.
minimum keysize is 768 bits
default keysize is 1024 bits
highest suggested keysize is 2048 bits
What keysize do you want? (1024)
Requested keysize is 1024 bits
Please specify how long the key should be valid.
0 =3D key does not expire
<n> =3D key expires in n days
<n>w =3D key expires in n weeks
<n>m =3D key expires in n months
<n>y =3D key expires in n years
Key is valid for? (0)
Key does not expire at all
Is this correct (y/n)? y

You need a User-ID to identify your key; the software constructs the =
user id
from Real Name, Comment and Email Address in this form:
"Heinrich Heine (Der Dichter) <heinrichh@duesseldorf.de>"

Real name: blah blah
Email address:
Comment: blah blah
You selected this USER-ID:
"blah blah (blah blah)"

Change (N)ame, (C)omment, (E)mail or (O)kay/(Q)uit? o
You need a Passphrase to protect your secret key.

You don't want a passphrase - this is probably a *bad* idea!
I will do it anyway. You can change your passphrase at any time,
using this program with the option "--edit-key".

We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
gpg: fatal: can't open /dev/urandom: There is a request to a device or
address that does not exist.
secmem usage: 1408/1536 bytes in 2/4 blocks of pool 1536/16384

root@myserver:/>ls -l /dev/urandom
crw-r--r-- 1 root system 33, 1 Jun 18 2003 /dev/urandom
root@myserver:/>cat /dev/urandom
cat: 0652-050 Cannot open /dev/urandom.


Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

Chris



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