Feed entropy into random pool

Edit Package haveged

The haveged daemon feeds the linux entropy pool with random
numbers generated from hidden processor state.

For more informations see http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/

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Filename Size Changed
haveged-1.5.tar.gz 0000243336 238 KB
haveged.changes 0000007552 7.38 KB
haveged.init 0000003693 3.61 KB
haveged.service 0000000193 193 Bytes
haveged.spec 0000003205 3.13 KB
Revision 24 (latest revision is 66)
Ismail Dönmez's avatar Ismail Dönmez (namtrac) accepted request 130723 from Michal Vyskocil's avatar Michal Vyskocil (mvyskocil) (revision 24)
- Update to 1.5
  * Add online tests based on AIS-31 
  * Add -p option to specify the pid location.
  * Fix -F option to not take argument - i.e. now a switch
  * Factor diagnostic methods for capture and inject for better performance
  * Fix install target, move to bin and eliminate script if not daemon, now use sysv and systemd templates 
- use -F with no arguments in haveged.service 
- work-around nist check on i586 by decreasing the size of static array in a test

- Update to version 1.4
  * Add s390 architecture. Thanks to Dan Horak and Jiri Hladky
  * Add generic architecture with clock_gettime() timer.
  * Rewrite collection loop to support multiple instances and new diagnostics
  * Rewrite tuning mechanism to add virtual file system mining and correct cpuid bugs
  * Add prototype multi-thread collection option
  * Reduce collection buffer size to .5MB
  * Improve/correct build and install
  * Add new invocation options to support new features.
- init script additions $remote_fs added

- build with -fpie
Comments 1

Cristian Rodríguez's avatar

Haveged is no longer necessary since around kernel 5.6.. at least we need to drop the udev rules, never activate it as default and drop all the initrd parts.

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