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rng-tools package

rng-tools 5-0ubuntu3 source package in Ubuntu

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rng-tools (5-0ubuntu3) vivid; urgency=medium

  * No-change rebuild for the libgcrypt20 transition.
 -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden>   Fri, 27 Mar 2015 06:17:37 -0600

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Adam Conrad
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Original maintainer:
Ubuntu Developers
Architectures:
any
Section:
utils
Urgency:
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rng-tools: 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. 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.
 .
 This is an unofficial version of rng-tools which has been extensively
 modified to add multithreading and a lot of new functionality.