Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks(a)vt.edu&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: Sneakernet is out of the question. cvs.xemacs.org is physically 200 miles away, ftp.xemacs.org is physically 3000 miles away from me. My development machine is no longer accessible via the 'net and would make a perfect machine for signing except that I don't have a 'net connection where I can transfer that many megabytes of data as often as would be needed if distributions were being built there. I am. Since moving the XEmacs ftp server to gwyn from UIUC, I'm only talking to it over encrypted links, which is an improvement from the straight FTP I was doing in the 19.15 .. 20.2 days. I got an answer back from one of the gnupg people. It is explained in Schneier, _Applied Cryptography_[1]. Good random numbers are required for DSA digital signatures. Double Sigh. Footnotes: [1] Which I suppose I should have checked first, sigh.