diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'security/egd/DESCR')
| -rw-r--r-- | security/egd/DESCR | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/security/egd/DESCR b/security/egd/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..11f664c12bd --- /dev/null +++ b/security/egd/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +This is a perl program to collect entropy from a running Unix-like system, +mostly through various stats calls (vmstat and friends). The output is +hashed into a pool, stirred with an SHA1 hash, and used to provide +(theoretically) high-quality random data to callers over a UNIX- or TCP- +socket interface. This aims to provide functionality similar to the Linux +/dev/random device, but implemented in a fairly-portable user-space daemon +so that it can run on many unix-like systems. See the README for common +usage details. |