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I installed gnupg under macOS 10.12.6 via brew install gnupg (gpg --version correctly works). When I tried to generate a 4096bit RSA key via gpg2 --full-generate-key, it hangs at 'We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to performsome other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize thedisks) during the prime generation; this gives the random numbergenerator a better chance to gain enough entropy.' No + appears, although I heavily used the disks for 15min. Is this a bug? This used to work (but my last working version I tried was gpg 1.4.19).
There are various posts addressing Linux (e.g., CentOS or this), but nothing which immediately carries over to macOS.
My ~/.gnupg looks quite differently than under 1.4.19: it contains the empty files S.gpg-agent, S.gpg-agent.browser, S.gpg-agent.extra and S.gpg-agent.ssh, a file named pubring.kbx and an empty folder named private-keys-v1.d. Under 1.4.19, it used to contain the files gpg.conf, pubring.gpg, random_seed, secring.gpg.
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The 'hanging' came from the 4096bit. Once I went to the (default) 2048bit, there was no problem. Further issues arose thereafter and were due to the changes from gnupg 1.x.x to 2.x.x. They are explained here.
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