Re: [patch 0/6] New Generic HW RNG (#2)

Michael Buesch
2006-05-07T18:43:16Z

On Sunday 07 May 2006 20:39, you wrote:
> On Sunday 07 May 2006 16:38, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > Second try. Various fixes included. This does even compile (and work) now. :)
> >
>
> It would be good to give the patches more descriptive names, currently
> they all have the same subject lines, which is not really helpful.

How to do this with quilt?

> > The userspace RNG daemon can later be updated to select the RNG through
> > /sys/class/misc/hw_random/ for convenience. For now it is sufficient to
> > use cat and echo -n on the sysfs attributes.
>
> When you're making the behaviour of hw_random configurable, maybe you could
> also add an option to automatically use the current hw_random driver to
> feed the /dev/random entropy pool on systems where the administrator trusts
> its randomness.

This has been discussed and it is not desired behaviour.
If you want to feed /dev/random, use rngd to read from /dev/hwrng,
validate the data and put it into /dev/random.

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Greetings Michael.