Hmm, looks like:

apt-get install haveged 

was all I needed.  While it isn't the hwrng, it is a nice entropy generator.

http://freecode.com/projects/haveged


On Monday, October 7, 2013 10:58:55 PM UTC-7, George B wrote:
>
> I would be very interested in this topic as well.  The application I have 
> in mind for this BBB relies on making varying amounts of SSL connections. 
>  In a test today I believe I ran the pool out of entropy and some 
> handshakes would hang for a while before completing (typical SSL handshake 
> would take about 1/2 a second but some would hang for 2 to 4 seconds before 
> completing).  Basically the performance is such that I can't use it for the 
> desired application but getting the hwrng working would likely change 
> everything.  This unit is operating "headless" with no kbd/mouse or 
> anything except network connected.  I finally did break down and installed 
> rng-tools to use /dev/urandom to seed /dev/random but I see that as 
> basically a quick/dirty workaround.  Even tried adding randomsound to add 
> some entropy but that didn't seem to make any difference.
>
> On Friday, October 4, 2013 11:43:14 AM UTC-7, Joshua Datko wrote:
>>
>> I have not yet tried to get the HWRNG working on the BBB.  According 
>> to the TI Crypto page [1], you just need to reconfigure your kernel 
>> and it should add /dev/hwrng support.  If anybody has gotten this 
>> working recently, I'd like to know :) 
>>
>> Josh 
>>
>> [1] http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Cryptography_Users_Guide 
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:25 PM, rh_ <[email protected]> wrote: 
>> > On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 13:29:24 -0400 
>> > Przemek Klosowski 
>> > <[email protected]> wrote: 
>>
>>

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