Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 8 Dec 2007 13:53:42 -0600 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: entropy gathering (was Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?) |
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On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:36:33PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > As an aside... > > Speaking as the maintainer rng-tools, which is the home of the hardware > RNG entropy gathering daemon... > > I wish somebody (not me) would take rngd and several other projects, and > combine them into a single actively maintained "entropy gathering" package.
I think we should re-evaluate having an internal path from the hwrngs to /dev/[u]random, which will reduce the need for userspace config that can go wrong.
-- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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