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: >> >> -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
