From 1b4410c70e92f9ee4a345cf0882e4a538e11aede Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michalis Pappas Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 23:37:29 +0700 Subject: system/rng-tools: Added (random number generator tools). Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo --- system/rng-tools/README | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) create mode 100644 system/rng-tools/README (limited to 'system/rng-tools/README') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3