entropy gathering daemon

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Wed Feb 28 16:14:42 CET 2018


On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:53, edgar at pettijohn-web.com said:

> 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

In case you have a problem with scarce entropy you may want to add

only-urandom

to /etc/gcrypt/random.conf - in almost all cases this okay for all
libgcrypt users.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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