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-[[!meta title="Running `monkeysphere gen-key` on a headless server takes way too long"]]
-
-When i try to generate a key on a headless machine (no kbd, no mouse,
-no Human Input Device (HID) at all), `monkeysphere gen-key` hangs for
-a *very* long time (over an hour so far!) during the generation
-process, particularly at this point:
-
-       ms: generating server key...
-       
-       Not enough random bytes available.  Please do some other work to give
-       the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 197 more bytes)
-
-And sure enough, there really is very little entropy in these systems
-at the time requested:
-
-       0 chomsky:~# cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail 
-       32
-       0 chomsky:~# 
-
-It's not clear to me how to increase the entropy available to the
-kernel without an HID.
-
-I've seen this happen on two machines now in the last week, and was
-able to resolve it on the first one by plugging in a keyboard and
-"massaging" it.  This won't work for a machine that's out of physical
-range, and has no keyboard to be plugged in anyway.
-
-One thing that might help is to suggest that the system administrator
-install a package like `bsdgames` and play console-based games as a
-non-privileged user, since that seems to feed the entropy count
-somewhat.