On Thu, 2019-04-25 at 15:37 +0000, proc...@riseup.net wrote: > 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
Hi, As far as I know, the kernel module and the userspace daemon are separate and independent, and serve different purposes. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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