Package: rng-tools5 Severity: wishlist Hey,
Filing it against this pacakge as the rng-tools seems to be in some odd transitional limbo. Looking into the entropy debacle (especially on my devboards) and how other distributions do things I noticed that e.g. fedora ships rng-tools 6.x from https://github.com/nhorman/rng-tools. One of the features that provides is jitterentropy support to generate random numbers without needing a hw rng. This is quite useful as it allows one to just install rng-tools and take advantage of either a hwrng or if not needed use software instead. Avoiding to have to install both rng-tools and either jitterentropy-rngd or haveged on generic images. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: armhf Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages rng-tools5 depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.56+nmu1 ii libc6 2.28-7 ii libgcrypt20 1.8.4-5 rng-tools5 recommends no packages. rng-tools5 suggests no packages.
