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diff --git a/system/rng-tools/README b/system/rng-tools/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..23ddcc51d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/rng-tools/README @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +rng-tools provide rngd and rngtest. + +rngd supplies data from a hardware RNG to the kernel's entropy pool. To ensure +sufficient randomness, rngd verifies the RNGs data using FIPS 140-1 / 140-2 +randomness tests, before passing them to the kernel. + +rngtest is a standalone tool for running the FIPS tests over data. |