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diff --git a/user/tlecarrour/rng-tools.mdwn b/user/tlecarrour/rng-tools.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..329852a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/user/tlecarrour/rng-tools.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + + +rng-tools +========= + +Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG. 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). +(from [[http://packages.debian.org/lenny/rng-tools]]) + +[[!toc startlevel=2]] + + +* * * + + +Log +--- + +* **Started**: 2012-01-28 +* **Discussed**: [2012-01-30](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/01/msg00177.html) +* **Draft Submitted**: - +* **Submitted**: - +* **Accepted**: - + + +* * * + + +ToDo +---- + +Here is the output of `grep -R PATH_MAX rng-tools-2-unofficial-mt.14/*`: + + viapadlock_engine.c:static char cpudev_path[PATH_MAX+1]; + viapadlock_engine.c:char devpath[PATH_MAX+1]; + + +* * * + + +Comments +-------- + +Work in progress, see related [thread](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/01/msg00177.html). + +Even if the **PATH_MAX** can be easily fixed, some problems remain. +The code uses `linux/types.h`, that has to be replaced by `sys/types.h`, but also uses `linux/random.h` which has no equivalent I know of. +At least one source file is named after the OS: `rngd_linux.c`. |