Package: rng-tools-debian (2-unofficial-mt.14-3)

[ Source: rng-tools-debian  ]

daemon to use a Hardware TRNG (classic version)

The rngd daemon acts as a bridge between a Hardware TRNG (true random number generator), such as the ones in some Intel/AMD/VIA chipsets, and the kernel's PRNG (pseudo-random number generator).

It tests the data received from the TRNG using the FIPS 140-2 (2002-10-10) tests to verify that it is indeed random, and feeds the random data to the kernel entropy pool.

This increases the bandwidth of the /dev/random device, from a source that does not depend on outside activity. It may also improve the quality (entropy) of the randomness of /dev/random.

A TRNG kernel module such as hw_random, or some other source of true entropy that is accessible as a device or fifo, is required to use this package.

This is an unofficial version of rng-tools which has been extensively modified to add multithreading and a lot of new functionality. However, most users of newer or high-bandwidth HWRNGs might wish to install the 5.x version of rng-tools, also packaged as rng-tools5, instead; while it lacks some of the new functionality from this version, it offers more performant support for those.

Other Packages Related to rng-tools-debian

• dep: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)

  helper tools for all init systems

• dep: libc6 (>= 2.14) [amd64]

  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
  also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb

  dep: libc6 (>= 2.17) [arm64]

  dep: libc6 (>= 2.28) [armhf, i386]

• dep: lsb-base

  Linux Standard Base init script functionality

• dep: udev (>= 0.053)

  /dev/ and hotplug management daemon

  or makedev (>= 2.3.1-77)

  creates device files in /dev

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i386	45.7 kB	127.0 kB	[list of files]