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From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Re: rng-tools PKCS#11 and rtlsdr
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2020 12:57:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <76CC7BD2-DC12-47FA-B824-AE7DEADFCB1E@ipfire.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6be87da8091dab00781c9fd9d93f731335892f3b.camel@ipfire.org>

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Hello Erik,

I would say that we can disable both things.

We do not encourage people to add any SDRs and we do not need any PKCS#11 support here either. rngd isn’t very useful at all any more, and we should not encourage people to feed arbitrary entropy into their pools.

-Michael

> On 5 Oct 2020, at 17:31, ummeegge <ummeegge(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> am currently updating the rng-tools and there are some new compile
> options needed to compile it.
> 
>  --without-pkcs11        Disable pkcs11 support.
>  --without-rtlsdr        Disable rtlsdr support.
> 
> so a question arises for me, should we enable Smartcards -->
> https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/wiki
> and also DVB dongles as entropy resources -->
> https://github.com/librtlsdr/librtlsdr
> for the rng-tools --> https://github.com/nhorman/rng-tools/releases in
> IPFire, whereby two new libs are needed ?
> 
> Best,
> 
> Erik
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-06 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-05 16:31 ummeegge
2020-10-06 11:57 ` Michael Tremer [this message]
2020-10-06 13:19   ` ummeegge

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