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| author | Michalis Pappas <mpappas@fastmail.fm> | 2015-06-24 23:37:29 +0700 |
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| committer | Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org> | 2015-06-24 23:37:29 +0700 |
| commit | 1b4410c70e92f9ee4a345cf0882e4a538e11aede (patch) | |
| tree | 758e74cd7321684ee09e883b8c54de713cd5f426 /system/rng-tools/README | |
| parent | 14473a3b5776b00bed766f6ae63b5ee6ec15af43 (diff) | |
system/rng-tools: Added (random number generator tools).
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'system/rng-tools/README')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/system/rng-tools/README b/system/rng-tools/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..23ddcc51d7898 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/rng-tools/README @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +rng-tools provide rngd and rngtest. + +rngd supplies data from a hardware RNG to the kernel's entropy pool. To ensure +sufficient randomness, rngd verifies the RNGs data using FIPS 140-1 / 140-2 +randomness tests, before passing them to the kernel. + +rngtest is a standalone tool for running the FIPS tests over data. |