Re: Intent to package intel-rng-tools.

[David Schleef <ds@schleef.org>]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:32:59AM +0530, Viral wrote:
> > As long as it isn't too bothersome for you, would you mind explaining why
> > the kernel doesn't activate it by default? Or why it isn't a `make config'
> > option? And why is a daemon needed for it?
> 
> No, its not bothersome to explain. This extract comes from 2.4.4's
> Documentation/i810_rng.txt. I also read about the decision of
> moving the rng to userland, but I can't find that now. 


Do you know if there is any work related to merging the various
rng daemons?  From various announcements about sound-entropyd
and egd (http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/), I get the feeling
that a lot of work is being duplicated w.r.t. proper hashing
and entropy verification.




dave...