On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 8:07 PM Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 5/26/23 09:48, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > haveged is a userspace daemon. It helps programs which use it, but it > > does not help the system. > > It does help the system. It feeds /dev/random. > From the package description: > : Haveged uses HAVEGE (HArdware Volatile Entropy Gathering and Expansion) > : to maintain a 1M pool of random bytes used to fill /dev/random > : whenever the supply of random bits in /dev/random falls below the low > : water mark of the device. I stand corrected. Jeff _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
