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rng-tools5 package

rng-tools5 5-4.1 source package in Ubuntu

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rng-tools5 (5-4.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Non-maintainer upload
  * Drop Vcs fields (points to upstream)
  * Convert to 3.0 source format (Closes: #1007302)

 -- Bastian Germann <email address hidden>  Sat, 03 Dec 2022 11:33:40 +0100

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Uploaded by:
Michael Stone
Uploaded to:
Sid
Original maintainer:
Michael Stone
Architectures:
any
Section:
misc
Urgency:
Medium Urgency

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Binary packages built by this source

rng-tools5: 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).
 .
 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.
 .
 This increases the bandwidth of the /dev/random device, from a source that
 does not depend on outside activity. This may improve the behavior of systems
 which experience low values in /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
 It may also improve the quality (entropy) of the randomness of /dev/random.
 .
 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. It will take advantage of the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions
 included in some Intel & AMD CPUs.

rng-tools5-dbgsym: debug symbols for rng-tools5