Hello, Stephan, Am Freitag, 8. Mai 2020, 13:58:14 CEST schrieb Stephan Mueller: > > (Although those daemons would solve my problem, I currently try > > to avoid them, because memory on my platform is very restricted and every > > additional running userspace process costs at least around 1 MB.) > > If you compile it and you also have AF_ALG for RNGs compiled, you can use it > through the AF_ALG interface (see [1] for a library). But IMHO if you are > space-constrained, you do not want that code. > > Rather use the jitterentropy-library from [2] and link it straight from your > application. That would be dropbear or openssl (and applications using libssl). While that would certainly be nice, I fear it's out of my scope. ;-) > > If so, then how is it supposed to be set up? > > It is intended for in-kernel purposes (namely to seed its DRBG). Okay and DRBG has nothing to do with /dev/random ? Then where do the random numbers for that come from (in the current or previous kernels without your new lrng)? Curious Alex
