Bug#504044: Bug#911043: On starting (and stopping) rngd

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Wed Nov 11 07:45:36 GMT 2020


On Tue, 2020-11-10 at 18:47 +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> All,
> 
> I think due to the complexity of this I’ll postpone
> this for after bullseye. Maybe I can get my hands on
> systems which Linux /dev/hwrng supports

There's virtio-rng in recent kernels, so you could just boot a VM and
connect the host's /dev/random to that.

johannes




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