Package: rng-tools-debian
Version: 2.6build1
Architecture: amd64
Architecture-Variant: amd64v3
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>
Installed-Size: 133
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.38), sysvinit-utils (>= 3.05-4~), udev | makedev
Conflicts: intel-rng-tools, rng-tools5
Breaks: rng-tools (>= 5migratf), rng-tools (<< 5migrate)
Replaces: intel-rng-tools, rng-tools
Provides: intel-rng-tools, rng-tools (= 2.6build1)
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Description: daemon to use a Hardware RNG (classic version)
 The rngd daemon acts as a bridge between a Hardware RNG (random
 number generator), such as the ones in some Intel/AMD/VIA chipsets,
 and the kernel’s PRNG (pseudo-random number generator).
 .
 It tests the data received from the HWRNG using the FIPS 140-2 (2002-10-10)
 tests to verify that it is indeed random then feeds the random data to the
 kernel entropy pool.
 .
 This increases the bandwidth of the /dev/random device, from a source
 that does not depend on outside activity. It may also improve the
 quality (entropy) of the randomness of /dev/random.
 .
 An HWRNG kernel module such as hw_random, or some other source of true
 entropy that is accessible as a device or fifo, is required to use this
 package. Securely tunneling entropy over the network and feeding it to
 rngd is also possible.
 .
 This is an unofficial version of rng-tools (as classically shipped by
 Debian up to and including release 10 “buster”), version 2, extensively
 modified to add multithreading and a lot of new functionality. However,
 most users of newer or high-bandwidth HWRNGs might wish to install the
 latest version of upstream rng-tools (packaged as rng-tools5) instead;
 that package offers more performant support for those, even if it lacks
 the new functionality from this version.
