Bug#466946: Bug#504044: On starting (and stopping) rngd

2020-11-11 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi Neil, >First, regarding the rng-tools version looks rather out of date. From what yes. As I explicitly wrote in the first message, this is about the *heavily* patched “Debian classic” version of rng-tools 2.x; the package with 5.x is called rng-tools5 currently, and updating it is tracked

Bug#504044: On starting (and stopping) rngd

2020-11-11 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Johannes Berg dixit: >There's virtio-rng in recent kernels, so you could just boot a VM and >connect the host's /dev/random to that. Right, I’d even tested that, but the other changes are still rather intrusive, and I think testing those with real hardware would be better. bye, //mirabilos --

Bug#504044: On starting (and stopping) rngd

2020-11-08 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi *, I’m copying this eMail to those who requested various starting methods for rngd and those who can probably help me with it. Background: I took over the heavily patched 2.x series of rng-tools as “rng-tools-debian”, which is currently started from a sysvinit script only. Now I have got