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and subject line closing RFP: video-entropyd -- program to add entropy data
from video4linux devices
has caused the Debian Bug report #672347,
regarding RFP: video-entropyd -- program to add entropy data from video4linux
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : video-entropyd
Version : 2.0
Upstream Author : Folkert van Heusden <[email protected]>
* URL : http://www.vanheusden.com/ved/
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C
Description : program to add entropy data from video4linux devices
For security reasons (when doing network traffic or generating secure keys for
example) one wants as much entropy-data in the kernel random-driver as
possible. The random-driver takes partially care for this. But in situations in
where there's a lot of demand for entropy-data, it might not be able to gather
enough entropy-data by itself.
That's where this program is for: adding entropy-data to the kernel-driver. It
does that by fetching 2 images from a video4linux-device (with a random delay
in between), calculating the difference between those two and then calculating
the number of information-bits in that data. After that, the data with the
number-of-entropy-bits is submitted to the kernel-random-driver.
After that, the program exits (when run from crontab) or sleeps a random time
before redoing the same process.
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RFP 672347 has no visible progress for a long time, so closing.
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