rng-tools v6.7

new release of rng-tools, providing various bug fixes and new features.

Bug Fixes:

• Misc typo fixes
• Fixed build break on ppc
• Fixed bug in which getaffinity returns error on virt systems for jitterentropy
• Fixed low watermark sizing for kernel entropy pool

Enhancements:

• Improved performance of jitterentropy source
• Added support for entropy gathering from pkcs11 compliant openssl engines

rng-tools v6.6 feature release

rng-tools update to provide the ability to build rng-tools against jitterentropy DSO's

rng-tools v6.5 feature release

rng-tools 6.5 is releaesed. This code drop fixes several bugs and introduces many new features:

Features:

• Add a test mode, allowing entropy production rates to be measured
• Added jitter library as an entropy source
• Added short names to entropy sources (rather than just index numbers), for use in identifying sources to exclude/include/set options on
• Deprecated tpm entropy source, as all modern tpm2 hardware in the kernel exports entropy via /dev/hwrng (the hwrng entropy source)
• Deprecated use of indexs in exclude/include/option setting
• Introduced the concept of slow entropy sources, that produce entropy at rates slow enough that would otherwise cause them to get disabled as being broken
• Defaulted rdrand entropy source to not use aes, as it creates a significant performance increase

Bugfixes:

• Fixed some locking bugs
• Fixed a few typos
• Some cross compile fixes
• Fixed quiet mode
• Moved console output to stdout/stderr as appropriate

rng-tools v6.4 feature release

New rng-tools feature release available.

Notable changes from v6.3.1:

• Update of jitterentropy-library version
• Addition of -O flag to allow per-entropy-source option setting (documented in man page)
• Misc jitterentropy bugfixes
• Fixing of debug messages and quiet behavior
• Enable runtime disablement of AES in rdrand entropy if no AES method is available
• Make jitterentropy thread count/buffer sizes configurable
• Make AES use in rdrand and darn entropy sources configurable

rng-tools v6.3.1 bugfix release

• Fixes a few logic errors in the use of jitterentropy

• Fixes a build issue in which make check fails

• Some source typo fixes

• Add caching to jitterentropy

• Free some leaked memory on exit

rng-tools v6.3 feature release

New rng-tools release!

Bug fixes:

• limit nistbeacon random data based on freq and timestamp
• Document nistbeacon more

Features:

• Add jitter entropy library from Stephan Mueller as a new entropy source

rng-tools v6.2 bugfix release

rngtools 6.2 includes multiple bugfixes including:

• improved exit code reporting
• ability to suppress failure messages when not wanted
• correction of nistbeacon fields on non 64 bit arches
• proper exiting on SIGTERM/SIGINT when polling in update_kernel_random

And the introduction of new test scripts for use in test automation

RNG tools release 6.1

Release 6.1 of the random number generator tools suite

Bugs fixed

• Fixed a drng build issue based on a missing extern symbol
• minor code formatting cleanup
• ensure darn rng asm code is volatile to prevent getting optimized out
• improve darn runtime hardware support check
• man page fixes
• fixed bug in which rngd takes control of the terminal

New Features

• Added NIST beacon entropy source support