I just added a package for rng-tools in the repos anyway. Thanks. Forgive my ignorance... Is it enabled by default? There's an obvious argument that since Salix provides `/dev/random`, they should make it actually work in practice out of the box. Someone should not have to do something special to g...

gapan wrote: ↑21. Jul 2019, 06:44 Indeed, but that is expected and not something new. Why are you not using /dev/urandom instead?

I'm performing security testing and evaluation (ST&E). I'm testing `/dev/random` because Salix provides it.

If Salix does not provide it, then I won't test it.

Salix is suffering entropy depletion in /dev/random. Testing the interface fails to produce random numbers. This is [sadly] normal for many Linux distros. The kernel is defective out of the box. The gap for Salix is, there is no package to fix the problem. On Debian and derivatives we install rng-to...