Package: jitterentropy-rngd
Version: 1.0.8-3
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

As part of my work on a downstream privacy distro, I tested jitternentropy-rngd 
while integrating it and discovered the complementing kernel module 
jitterentropy_rng.ko never loads on boot as it is supposed to when the 
userspace jitterentropy daemon is installed. As a VM based OS a reliable 
entropy source that guarantees /dev/urandom is safely seeded is a priority. To 
test if it works one would see the signs described by the jitter dev Stephan 
Mueller [0]. I've confirmed that oddly no dmesg messages appear and the 
userspace service churns along fine despite the module silently never loading. 
Please try to fix this when possible. I have reported this problem against the 
kernel package too.

TIA 

[0] https://www.whonix.org/pipermail/whonix-devel/2019-April/001365.html
[1] https://www.whonix.org/pipermail/whonix-devel/2019-April/001366.html



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