On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 at 20:58, Otavio Salvador <[email protected]> wrote: > We are adding a new PACKAGECONFIG option ('rng-tools') to control if we > wish the openssh-sshd to RRECOMMENDS the 'rng-tools' package. We are > enabling it by default so there is no behavior change.
Is this fundamentally because many targets now have hardware RNGs that the kernel is using, and so rng-tools serves no purpose? This was originally added with data from iMX6 (oe-core 9b01375236e19e3366c58877c4154d7c71632984) and I'm curious if this followup is related to other improvements that have been made to iMX6 since. Is there a better user space tool, or is the kernel using the hardware RNG out of the box? I ask because I'm strongly tempted to argue that we should be assuming that a RNG is available and let BSPs turn this on if required. Ross
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