On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Salz, Rich <rsalz at akamai.com> wrote: > We are thinking of removing support for EGD (entropy-gathering daemon) in > the next release. None of our supported platforms have needed it for some > time. If this will cause an issue for you, please reply soon. > Rich... At the cost of being argumentative, why is there no need for it? I had to install an entropy gather on Debian desktop because reads to /dev/random would fail on occasion when the device was opened O_NONBLOCK. I was not hitting it hard - I was just trying to grab a 32 byte one-time seed to seed an in-app generator. It was really surprising to see Debian's RNG could only supply 7 bytes or so. I was amazed it happened out of the box in 2014. After that, I switched to alternate methods to grab any entropy I could get my hands on, including things like EGD, HAVEGED and even sensor readings on mobile devices (if they are available). Jeff
