Em sex., 25 de set. de 2020 às 06:58, Ross Burton <[email protected]> escreveu: > 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?
Exactly, we can use it from the kernel and most of time it is of no-use. > 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. I added this enabled by default so we can backport it to Dunfell (as it won't change the current behavior). For master, we can turn it off and let distro to enable it if need. I'd like to get this one merged first (and send the backport request) and then I can send a patch to disable it. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750
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