Bug#214926: ITA: intel-rng-tools -- Daemon to use the RNG on i810 motherboards
intel-rng-tools needs updating:
- intel-rng-tools have been renamed to rng-tools
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel).
- rng-tools is now available in version 1.0, which includes support
for AMD and VIA processors, as well as newer Intel 8xx chipsets.
(Most of this was probably available in v 0.9.1, but at least it needs
to be documented.)
- The package has exactly one outstanding bug. It's easily fixed by
updating the device name for the hardware RNG.
- The documentation is two years out of date and contains many
inaccuracies, e.g. in device names, kernel module names, and hardware
requirements.
- The existing package doesn't include the diagnostic tools randstat
and rngtest.
I have no particular familiarity with rngd, but I'm interested to
learn and would like to use it myself. So I'd like to bring the
package up to date.
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