-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-2441 2008-03-13 05:54:33 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : egd Product : Fedora 7 Version : 0.9 Release : 1.fc7 URL : http://egd.sourceforge.net/ Summary : Entropy Gathering Daemon Description : EGD is an Entropy Gathering Daemon meant to be used on systems that can run GPG but which don't have a convenient (or reliable) source of random bits. It is a regular user-space program that sits around, running programs like 'w' and 'last' and 'vmstat', collecting the randomness (or at least the unpredictability) inherent in the output of these system statistics programs when used on a reasonably busy system. It slowly stirs the output of these gathering programs into a pool of entropy, much like the linux kernel device, and allows other programs to read out random bits from this pool. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Initial release: egd: EGD is an Entropy Gathering Daemon meant to be used on systems that can run GPG but which don't have a convenient (or reliable) source of random bits. It is a regular user-space program that sits around, running programs like 'w' and 'last' and 'vmstat', collecting the randomness (or at least the unpredictability) inherent in the output of these system statistics programs when used on a reasonably busy system. It slowly stirs the output of these gathering programs into a pool of entropy, much like the linux kernel device, and allows other programs to read out random bits from this pool. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update egd' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce