entropy gathering daemon

[edgar at pettijohn-web.com]

On Feb 28, 2018 8:22 AM, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
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> On Sun,  4 Feb 2018 08:44, edgar at pettijohn-web.com said:
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> > Is it no longer possible to use egd? Most of the info I can find seems
>
> If Libgcrypt has been configured with EGD support this should still
> work.  I have not tested it for more than a decade, though.
>
> Why do you want to use it?  Which OS does not support /dev/random and
> why don't you want to use the fallback rndunix driver in Libgcrypt.
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>
> Shalom-Salam,
>
>    Werner
>

I overlooked the configure switches. Got it working. The use case is for chroot'd programs that need it on a filesystem mounted nodev. I sent some patches awhile back to add arc4random_buf as the entropy gathering 'device'. Which I've been using with no problems since. And it's a little faster than going through the egd.

Thanks,

Edgar
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