Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the rng-tools package. I am upstream for the package, but it needs "downstream-care" which I have not been providing it with due to limited time.
The package description is: 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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110618192302.13535.54330.report...@khazad-dum2.khazad-dum.debian.net
