Re: entropy gathering (was Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?)

[Matt Mackall]

On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:36:33PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> As an aside...
> 
> Speaking as the maintainer rng-tools, which is the home of the hardware 
> RNG entropy gathering daemon...
> 
> I wish somebody (not me) would take rngd and several other projects, and 
> combine them into a single actively maintained "entropy gathering" package.

I think we should re-evaluate having an internal path from the hwrngs
to /dev/[u]random, which will reduce the need for userspace config
that can go wrong.

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