From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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
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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 sup=
port here either. rngd isn=E2=80=99t very useful at all any more, and we shou=
ld not encourage people to feed arbitrary entropy into their pools.

-Michael

> On 5 Oct 2020, at 17:31, ummeegge <ummeegge(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
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> Hi all,
> am currently updating the rng-tools and there are some new compile
> options needed to compile it.
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>  --without-pkcs11        Disable pkcs11 support.
>  --without-rtlsdr        Disable rtlsdr support.
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> 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 ?
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> Best,
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> Erik
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