Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : video-entropyd Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Folkert van Heusden <folk...@vanheusden.com> * 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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120510092532.24568.33654.report...@isafjordur.dyndns.org