rng-tools increases the entropy pool significantly and upon running rngd -v it lists Intel/AMD hardware rng and DRNG. But testing the hardware rng using rngtest -c 1000 </dev/hwrng returns no such device. My question is whether rng-tools is actually supplying the entropy pool with high-quality random numbers, or should I use something like haveged instead?
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Hello,
I don’t think that this is supported, but I can see that someone has already shared this idea hear:
https://ideas.digitalocean.com/ideas/DO-I-2147
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Regards, Bobby