Bug#825872: [PATCH] explain how to enable the TPM's TRNG in README

2016-06-04 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
eg, maybe even something as simple as: --- rng-tools~ 2016-06-04 21:07:26.0 -0400 +++ rng-tools 2016-06-04 21:08:53.028515054 -0400 @@ -17,3 +17,4 @@ #RNGDOPTIONS="--hrng=intelfwh --fill-watermark=90% --feed-interval=1" #RNGDOPTIONS="--hrng=viakernel --fill-watermark=90%

Bug#825872: [PATCH] explain how to enable the TPM's TRNG in README

2016-06-04 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Also, it would be good to document somewhere that, --hrng=driver needs to be omitted eg: RNGDOPTIONS="--fill-watermark=90% --feed-interval=1" cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail hovers close to 4000 after this is enabled on my Thinkpad. Without it, it hovers around between the

Bug#825872: [PATCH] explain how to enable the TPM's TRNG in README

2016-05-30 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: rng-tools Version: 2-unofficial-mt.14-1 Tags: patch With a fresh install on a Xeon 1226 v3, reading 52KiB from /dev/random occurs at ~20bits/s Adding haveged gets it up to the ~60bits/s range But wow, adding the TPM's TRNG gets it as high as ~2.58MiB/s ! Removing haveged at this point