Re: entropy gathering daemon

On Fri, 2 Mar 2018 05:20, d...@fifthhorseman.net said: > Is there any chance that gcrypt will adopt this approach on GNU/Linux > systems, or at least make it available so that GnuPG can use it? This is already the case since libgcrypt 1.7.1; /etc/gcrypt/random.conf was only added with 1.8.0.

Re: entropy gathering daemon

On Wed 2018-02-28 16:14:42 +0100, Werner Koch wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:53, ed...@pettijohn-web.com said: > >> for chroot'd programs that need it on a filesystem mounted nodev. I >> sent some patches awhile back to add arc4random_buf as the entropy >> gathering 'device'. Which I've been

Re: entropy gathering daemon

On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:53, ed...@pettijohn-web.com said: > for chroot'd programs that need it on a filesystem mounted nodev. I > sent some patches awhile back to add arc4random_buf as the entropy > gathering 'device'. Which I've been using with no problems since. And In case you have a problem

Re: entropy gathering daemon

On Feb 28, 2018 8:22 AM, Werner Koch wrote: > > On Sun,  4 Feb 2018 08:44, ed...@pettijohn-web.com said: > > > Is it no longer possible to use egd? Most of the info I can find seems > > If Libgcrypt has been configured with EGD support this should still > work.  I have not tested

Re: entropy gathering daemon

On Sun, 4 Feb 2018 08:44, ed...@pettijohn-web.com said: > Is it no longer possible to use egd? Most of the info I can find seems If Libgcrypt has been configured with EGD support this should still work. I have not tested it for more than a decade, though. Why do you want to use it? Which OS

entropy gathering daemon

Is it no longer possible to use egd? Most of the info I can find seems rather old, and so far I haven't been able to find a way to make it work. If it is still possible how do I do it. Thanks in advance, Edgar ___ Gnupg-users mailing list