Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] New package: rng-tools for adding entropy from arbitrary source to kernel entropy pool

2011-09-30 Thread Florian Fainelli
On Wednesday 21 September 2011 16:50:16 Hannu Nyman wrote: After removal of the network drivers as an entropy source in Linux kernels a while ago, some routers e.g. in ar71xx family experience lack of hardware entropy for /dev/random. The device /dev/random can hang due to that. There are

[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] New package: rng-tools for adding entropy from arbitrary source to kernel entropy pool

2011-09-21 Thread Hannu Nyman
After removal of the network drivers as an entropy source in Linux kernels a while ago, some routers e.g. in ar71xx family experience lack of hardware entropy for /dev/random. The device /dev/random can hang due to that. There are pseudo random numbers available in /dev/urandom, but they do not