On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:36:33PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > As an aside... > > Speaking as the maintainer rng-tools, which is the home of the hardware > RNG entropy gathering daemon... > > I wish somebody (not me) would take rngd and several other projects, and > combine them into a single actively maintained "entropy gathering" package. > > IMO entropy gathering has been a long-standing need for headless network > servers (and now virtual machines). > > In addition to rngd for hardware RNGs, I've been daemons out there that > gather from audio and video sources (generally open wires/channels with > nothing plugged in), thermal sources, etc. There is a lot of entropy > that could be gathered via userland, if you think creatively.
I remember having installed openssh on an AIX machines years ago, and being amazed by the number of sources it collected entropy from. Simple commands such as "ifconfig -a", "netstat -i" and "du -a", "ps -ef", "w" provided a lot of entropy. Regards, Willy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
