I poorly expressed myself, it adds the support for the HARDWARE random number generator which we can find them in certain platform like: VIA Padlock, AMD Geode LX, Intel i8xx, Intel IXP4xx, P.A. Semi (PWRficient) and OMAP16xx (arm)
man rngd: rngd - Check and feed random data from hardware device to kernel entropy pool Malek walter harms a écrit : > can you please explain why we should need that ? > what is wrong with dev/urandom ? > > re, > wh > > > Malek wrote: >> This new applet adds the rngd daemon to Busybox like rng-tools >> > _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
