Fully updated cygwin64 on Win10 Pro x64; cygcheck.out attached. If I attempt this in a regular mintty session, it hangs forever (until killed with ^C). If I run it in a priviliged session (Run As Administrator) it gives the below timeout message after about 90 seconds. And yes, I did as suggested: moving the mouse, running chkdisk in a CMD box, etc. =================================== $ gpg --gen-key Note: Use "gpg2 --full-generate-key" for a full featured key generation dialog. GnuPG needs to construct a user ID to identify your key. Real name: Jim Garrison Email address: [redacted] You selected this USER-ID: "Jim Garrison [redacted]" Change (N)ame, (E)mail, or (O)kay/(Q)uit? O We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number generator a better chance to gain enough entropy. gpg: agent_genkey failed: Timeout Key generation failed: Timeout ==================================== -- Jim Garrison