[Bug 297206] Re: [Intrepid] Unable to encrypt a folder

[Marcin Wisnicki]

I have the same problem but it is not because of permissions, rather it
is due to lack of entropy.

If I do "gpg --gen-key" from terminal, the generation process halts and verbosely complains about insufficient entropy.
I need to perform A LOT of activities (1 minute of randomly clicking and browsing around filesystem) to refill entropy and then the process continues.

I've retried key generation from seahorse and indeed if I do similar amount of activity then key generation completes.
There is even a bug in that when I press "Cancel" in progress dialog and close seahorse the key is eventually generated.

Seahorse must show explanation similar to the one given by gpg and a
real progress bar that reflects amount of entropy still needed.

** Changed in: seahorse (Ubuntu)
       Status: Invalid => Confirmed

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[Intrepid] Unable to encrypt a folder
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/297206
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