nhorman/rng-tools

The rng-tools official repository (formerly part of the gkernel project on sourceforge)

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README

This is a random number generator daemon.

It monitors a set of entropy sources, and supplies entropy from them to the system kernel's /dev/random machinery.

Operation is fully documented in the man page, and should be fairly intuitive

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README

This is a random number generator daemon.

It monitors a set of entropy sources, and supplies entropy from them to the system kernel's /dev/random machinery.

Operation is fully documented in the man page, and should be fairly intuitive

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337 commits

29 commits

8 commits

6 commits

Languages

85.6%

Roff

6.1%

Assembly

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