From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268146AbUHXSLR (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:11:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268147AbUHXSLR (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:11:17 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:38818 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268146AbUHXSLP (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:11:15 -0400 Message-ID: <412B84B8.1060600@pobox.com> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:11:04 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel CC: hmh@debian.org Subject: rng-tools updated 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 Just posted version 2 of rng-tools at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/ This release fixes a problem related to 2.6.x kernels. rng-tools is currently for users of hardware random number generators (RNGs), and the included daemon rngd fill the kernel entropy pool from userspace with the results of the output. Future directions include: * support for VIA 'xcrypt' instruction in userspace, avoiding the need for a kernel driver * multithreaded daemon * additional entropy sources besides the dedicated h/w RNG