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Note the possibility of a pause due to /dev/random blocking.

[originally from svn r9125]
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Jacob Nevins 2011-03-09 18:10:47 +00:00
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@ -37,7 +37,11 @@ the following section.
\S{puttygen-manpage-options} OPTIONS \S{puttygen-manpage-options} OPTIONS
In the first phase, \c{puttygen} either loads or generates a key. In the first phase, \c{puttygen} either loads or generates a key.
The options to control this are: Note that generating a key requires random data (from
\c{/dev/random}), which can cause \c{puttygen} to pause, possibly for
some time if your system does not have much randomness available.
The options to control this phase are:
\dt \e{keyfile} \dt \e{keyfile}