From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266437AbTGERPo (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2003 13:15:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266439AbTGERPo (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2003 13:15:44 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:11969 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266437AbTGERPm (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Jul 2003 13:15:42 -0400 Message-ID: <3F070B1A.2090901@pobox.com> Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 13:30:02 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Reply-To: jgarzik@pobox.com Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LKML Subject: [ANN] rng-tools 1.0 released Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Version 1.0 of the rng-tools package has been released to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel This is the userspace support package for i810_rng / amd768_rng (2.4) and hw_random (2.5) device drivers. The general idea is that you have a userspace daemon obtaining random data from one or more sources, run it through a bunch of "make sure it's really random" sanity checks, and then add that entropy to the kernel's /dev/random entropy pool. Future directions include Via RNG support completely in userspace, and support for entropy sources other than a single /dev file. Contributions and critical review of this package welcome. Jeff P.S. Future release announcements will occur only via SourceForge's automated release notification system. This is a fairly minor package, and I don't want to spam lkml.