Thanks very much for the updates on entropy requirements.<p>Re: &quot;Why are you generating keys on a remote VM&quot; - prior to this, it hadn&#x27;t occured to me I couldn&#x27;t generate a gpg key on linode&#x2F;digital ocean, VMs.   I realize now that keys should be generated on local laptops (or such), and copied up.<p>Re: &quot;Fair to say failed to work&quot; - It just sat their for 90+ minutes - I spent a couple hours researching, and found a bug (highly voted on) that other people had run into the same issue.  But, honestly - don&#x27;t you think that gpg just hanging for 90+ minutes for something like generating a 2048 bit RSA key should be considered, &quot;failing to work?&quot; - I realize under the covers (now) what was happening - but 99% of the naive gpg using population would just give up in the same scenario instead of trying to debug it.