Package: wnpp Severity: normal The current maintainer of reseed, Sam Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, has orphaned this package.
Maintaining a package requires time and skills. Please only adopt this package if you are *sure* you will have enough time and attention to work on it. If you want to be the new maintainer, please see http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for detailed instructions how to adopt a package properly. Some information about this package: Package: reseed Binary: reseed Version: 1.1-3.3 Priority: extra Section: admin Maintainer: Sam Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>> 3.0.0) Architecture: all Standards-Version: 3.5.9.0 Format: 1.0 Directory: pool/main/r/reseed Files: 2c9ffef13ed9acf8cd1123d7fd0ed85a 558 reseed_1.1-3.3.dsc feb65a879d8aa5284f6bc6f921ce3288 1481 reseed_1.1.orig.tar.gz ec39d82da476f6e1d4de35dfed9d7dfe 4330 reseed_1.1-3.3.diff.gz Package: reseed Priority: extra Section: admin Installed-Size: 64 Maintainer: Sam Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 1.1-3.3 Depends: libwww-perl Filename: pool/main/r/reseed/reseed_1.1-3.3_all.deb Size: 6088 MD5sum: 1ac8301fe77708718123ee0bde520780 SHA1: c7b8139bfdd11a2d734b12252a4c957f3f1b6ad4 SHA256: a6efcdf94af46e2a654a2f894662eeb93c983d2c49df7f1c52c37ef77bec03cc Description: seeds urandom with a truly random seed retrieved from random.org reseed is a perl script that retrieves a truly random seed from the Internet (random.org) and uses it to reseed the linux random number generator. . On installation, 512 bytes of truly random data are retrieved and injected into /dev/urandom. The entropy pool is then saved between reboots, and can be reseeded from random.org by running the 'reseed' command. . Note that this is sent in the clear over the Internet so if an attacker could see the data in transit then you're worse off than if you were to have left Linux to generate the entropy pool itself. Tag: admin::boot, implemented-in::perl, interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility, special::not-yet-tagged, special::not-yet-tagged::r -- Mohammed Adnène Trojette
