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Yeah, the bug was really how it handled the case of waiting forever without telling you why. In GPG's defense, before it actually stars reading from /dev/random, it does give you all kinds of warnings that it needs sources of entropy before it can make any progress.

Hard to get that kind of thing right, but fundamentally it did stop you from making exactly the kind of terrible mistake that I was talking about. ;-)



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