Comment 37 for bug 706011

I am sympathetic with both sides of this (developer and user).

Suggestion: Add a guided entropy creation option such that gnupg would start a background thread or process that generates sufficient entropy. The user is warned about time needed variability which depends on hardware and other factors.

Periodically, the % accomplished to goal is updated. Would be nice: an ETA (time) update along with the % update.

This would enable the package maintainer or other type of end user to start up key generation and go off and eat dinner, go to sleep, whatever. And, the developer stops getting distracting reports due to lack of understanding by users on the nuances of randomness.