Feature changed by: Brandon Philips (philipsb) Feature #306591, revision 3 Title: entropy daemons in 11.2 openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Brandon Philips (philipsb) Description: Headless and diskless servers with limited input have relied on entropy added by interrupts flagged with IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM. However, this feature will be disappearing from the Kernel soon. One solution is to run a daemon to add entropy from userspace to the pool. Example daemons can be found here: * http://www.vanheusden.com/aed/ * http://www.vanheusden.com/ved/ * http://egd.sourceforge.net/ 11.2 should provide these or similar daemons as options for users who require additional entropy sources to keep /dev/random from blocking on read. The Kernel thread discussing this thread can be found here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/6/283 commit 9d9b8fb0e5ebf4b0398e579f6061d4451fea3242 What: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM Check: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM When: July 2009 Why: Many of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM users are technically bogus as entropy sources in the kernel's current entropy model. To resolve this, every - input point to the kernel's entropy pool needs to better - document the - type of entropy source it actually is. This will be replaced - with + input point to the kernel's entropy pool needs to better document the + type of entropy source it actually is. This will be replaced with additional add_*_randomness functions in drivers/char/random.c Who: Robin Getz & Matt Mackall Discussion: #1: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) (2009-07-09 15:59:11) This looks to me like a feature where some volunteer could package this in the build service. Any takers? + #2: Brandon Philips (philipsb) (2009-07-09 20:36:27) + I forgot to note that a solution like this will eventually be needed in + SLES too. See FATE#305944 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306591