note about initremote --fast

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Joey Hess 2013-05-24 12:12:00 -04:00
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(or encryption=emailaddress) to specify a gpg key that can access
the encrypted special remote.
Note that with encryption enabled, a gpg key is created. This requires
sufficient entropy. If initremote seems to hang or take a long time
while generating the key, you may want to ctrl-c it and re-run with --fast,
which causes it to use a lower-quality source of randomness.
Example Amazon S3 remote:
git annex initremote mys3 type=S3 encryption=me@example.com datacenter=EU