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
>