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| Name: rng-tools | Distribution: openSUSE Tumbleweed |
| Version: 6.17 | Vendor: openSUSE |
| Release: 5.1 | Build date: Wed Sep 24 11:50:54 2025 |
| Group: System/Kernel | Build host: reproducible |
| Size: 170573 | Source RPM: rng-tools-6.17-5.1.src.rpm |
| Packager: https://bugs.opensuse.org | |
| Url: https://github.com/nhorman/rng-tools | |
| Summary: Support daemon for hardware random device | |
This daemon feeds data from a random number generator to the kernel's random number entropy pool, after first checking the data to ensure that it is properly random.
GPL-3.0-or-later
* Wed Sep 24 2025 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.com>
- Drop rcrng-tools symlink [jsc#PED-266]
* Thu Oct 24 2024 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
- Enable build on risc64
* Wed Oct 23 2024 ro@suse.de
- add patch rng-tools-missing-includes.patch
add missing include statements to fix compilation with recent gcc
* Wed Jul 31 2024 Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
- Do not specify a fill-watermark in the service file to fix non-
starting service since 6.17, use auto-detection (boo#1228245)
* Sun Jun 30 2024 Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
- update to 6.17:
* mix data fed to the kernel byte-wise from multiple sources
* added option to attempt more persistent use of slow entropy
sources
* fix some missing m4 quotes
* improved debug output to show FIPS failures more clearly
* added a named pipe entropy source
* adjusted linux poolsize
* fixed some pkcs11 error messages
* fixed ignorefail and random_step options
* Sun Apr 16 2023 Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
- update to 6.16:
* Misc man page fixes, specifically addressing -V option
misdocumentation
* Improve security by allowing rngd to drop privlidges
* Misc documentation improvements
* Fix building with jitterentropy when configured for internal
software clock usage
* Fix building of power9 darn code on power systems that don't
natively support DARN instruction
* Fix jitterentropy long timeout failures on low power hardware
* Fix various build time errors on non libc systems
* Misc covscan issue fixes
* Sun Mar 27 2022 Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
- update to 6.15:
* Adjust rngtests for better behavior in travis
* fix use of non-posix setaffinity call to allow building on strict posix
(musl) systems
* Add armv6l to list of detected arches for pkcs11
* misc fixes to allow building on libc-musl
* fix a deadlock in jitter shutdown sequence
* minor warning fixups (unused variables)
* improve cpu detection code
* improve jitter cpu monopolization on small/single cpu systems
* Mon Nov 15 2021 Johannes Segitz <jsegitz@suse.com>
- Added hardening to systemd service(s) (bsc#1181400). Modified:
* rng-tools.service
* Wed Oct 06 2021 Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
- disable nistbeacon support
* Thu Aug 12 2021 Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
- update to 6.14:
* Fixed a null pointer deref in nistbeacon entropy source
* fixed some confguration tests
* clarified some rngd behavior in the man page
* update init code to do proper logging
* various covscan fixes
* fixed a memory leak in jitter entropy source
* fixed possible NULL deref in rdrand source
* various fixed in openssl mangling code
* added randstat binary to build
* minor modernizations to configure.ac
* Support rndr instruction on arm
* Support jitter software timer on coarse time systems
* Merged all openssl use into a single helper library
* Improved console output readability
/usr/bin/randstat /usr/bin/rngtest /usr/lib/systemd/system/rng-tools.service /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/90-hwrng.rules /usr/sbin/rngd /usr/share/doc/packages/rng-tools /usr/share/doc/packages/rng-tools/NEWS /usr/share/doc/packages/rng-tools/README /usr/share/licenses/rng-tools /usr/share/licenses/rng-tools/COPYING /usr/share/man/man1/rngtest.1.gz /usr/share/man/man8/rngd.8.gz
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