Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (551 mails)

[Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>]

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On 05/06/2011 09:00 PM, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> El 06/05/11 21:29, Cristian Rodríguez escribió:
>
> > Finally I got a question, why crypto devices that can feed the kernel
> > entropy pool automatically have to use rngd ? I know something should
> > check for the quality of that entropy, I wonder why the kernel itself
> > doesnt do that tests.
>
> For example, machines that have a wireless card, using the b43 driver,
> may have the ability to use the hwrng built on the chip
> automatically,yet the user has to know how to setup rngd and deal with
> the fact that if you put the interface down, rngd will go kaput. :|
>
> This is the epitome of user-unfriendlyness, yet pretty much everything
> uses entropy in one way of other,without the user having a single clue
> about it.

That sounds more like a problem with rngd if the it dies when the
interface goes down.

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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