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jitterentropy-rngd

Jitter RNG daemon

https://www.chronox.de/jent.html

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1.2.7 : 0 amd64 x86 alpha arm arm64 hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 riscv sparc

Package Metadata

  • Upstream
    Remote-Id https://github.com/smuellerDD/jitterentropy-rngd
  • Full description
    The Jitter RNG daemon provides an entropy source that feeds into the Linux /dev/random device if its entropy runs low. It updates the /dev/random entropy estimator such that the newly provided entropy unblocks /dev/random.
  • License
    BSD
  • Maintainer(s)
    Matthias Maier