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
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@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
Hi Michael, alright will disable it then.
Best,
Erik
Am Dienstag, den 06.10.2020, 12:57 +0100 schrieb Michael Tremer:
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@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
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ummeegge