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Init systems => OpenRC => Topic started by: physkets on 23 September 2017, 08:45:29

Title: [SOLVED] init script for rngd
Post by: physkets on 23 September 2017, 08:45:29
rngd allows you to use hardware random number generators to fill the entropy pool.

Can we have an 'rngd-openrc' package that puts the relevant conf.d and init.d files?

Gentoo already has them: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/tree/master/sys-apps/rng-tools/files/
Title: Re: init script for rngd
Post by: robin0800 on 23 September 2017, 11:11:23
What is wrong with "haveged" package that already has a script?
Title: Re: init script for rngd
Post by: thefallenrat on 24 September 2017, 05:52:55
Just opened a pull request for this : 

https://github.com/artix-linux/galaxy/pull/24

Hope it'll merged soon!
Title: Re: init script for rngd
Post by: physkets on 24 September 2017, 14:33:02
Quote from: robin0800 – on
What is wrong with "haveged" package that already has a script?

Because they are different things. 'haveged' is a hack to pull generate entropy from the processor and other standard parts of a machine. 'rngd' is a daemon to use a Hardware (True?) RNG.
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