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Source: rng-tools
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 7), autoconf, automake
Standards-Version: 3.8.4.0
Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/hmh/rng-tools.git;a=summary
Vcs-git: git://git.debian.org/users/hmh/rng-tools.git
Package: rng-tools
Architecture: any
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, udev (>= 0.053) | makedev (>= 2.3.1-77)
Provides: intel-rng-tools
Replaces: intel-rng-tools
Conflicts: intel-rng-tools
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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