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rng-tools

rng-tools Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Priority
Sectionutils
Installed size 200
Maintainer Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
Architecture i386
Version 2-unofficial-mt.10-2
Depends libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), makedev (>= 2.3.1-77) | udev (>= 0.053)
Suggests nxml-mode
File name pool/main/r/rng-tools/rng-tools_2-unofficial-mt.10-2_i386.deb
Description The rngd daemon acts as a bridge between a Hardware TRNG (true random number generator) such as the ones in some Intel/AMD/VIA chipsets, and the kernel's PRNG (pseudo-random number generator). . It tests the data received from the TRNG using the FIPS 140-2 (2002-10-10) tests to verify that it is indeed random, and feeds the random data to the kernel entropy pool. . This increases the bandwidth of the /dev/random device, from a source that does not depend on outside activity. It may also improve the quality (entropy) of the randomness of /dev/random. . A TRNG kernel module such as hw_random, or some other source of true entropy that is accessible as a device or fifo, is required to use this package. . This is an unofficial version of rng-tools which has been extensively modified to add multithreading and a lot of new functionality.


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