True RNG and GnuPG / libgcrypt (was: NeuG 0.11)

NIIBE Yutaka gniibe at fsij.org
Mon Sep 2 06:07:44 CEST 2013


Replying to my own question:

On 2013-09-02 at 12:27 +0900, NIIBE Yutaka wrote:
> How do you think about supporting hardware RNG by GnuPG / libgcrypt?

It seems that easiest way to support hardware RNG (without touching
libgcrypt) is to use the EGD (Entropy Gathering Daemon) interface, and
to write a helper daemon which accesses hardware RNG and provides its
random data through the interface.
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