Hi, There was some discussion (caused by me) on hardware RNG and /dev/random and /dev/hw* devices. The conclusion seems to be that the only "valid" way of using hardware random is by using "rngd" to feed /dev/hw* random into /dev/random, but only after FIPS checking, which is done by rngd. This check is essential since the /dev/hw* devices can return very non-random data, so these devices should never be used directly. (openswan 2.4.7 will no longer access those devivces directly) Since I did not find an rng-tools package, I created one for extras, uploaded at ftp://ftp.xelerance.com/rng-tools/ Then I found that rng-utils exist, which seems to be based on the same source, but it has no initscripts at all to launch "rngd" at boot. The question now is, do I submit the initscripts extension as bug to rng-utils, or do I submit an rng-tools package that "obsoletes" rng-utils? Personally, I think this functionality should be in core (and the service pref should be called rngd, not rng-utils). But if rng-utils will not be extended with initscripts, I'd want to have something in Extras that does have a init script. Again, any system with a hardware RNG should be running this daemon or else it will not be able to use hardware RNG at all. Paul -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
