rng-tools and VIA chipsets with Padlock

2021-05-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, I have an old VIA C7-D machine I use for testing Padlock. Padlock is a security engine provides AES, SHA and a RNG for some of the VIA processors. (It predates Intel's gear by about 15 years). With rng-tools installed I'm seeing failures in /dev/random. Draining /dev/random and then

Re: rng-tools and VIA chipsets with Padlock

2021-05-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
> My question is, is this something Ubuntu would like to investigate? This looks like a problem I encountered in the past with rng-tools. The problem in the past was, rngd is an old System V service. It does not start correctly under Systemd. I believe I fixed the problem in the past using a prop