./security/egd, EGD: Entropy Gathering Daemon

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Branch: pkgsrc-2009Q2, Version: 0.8nb2, Package name: egd-0.8nb2, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

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.


Required to run:
[lang/perl5]

Master sites:

SHA1: 9316b05796f0447094132c8647e36e6ce97b6ad3
RMD160: bc2aa236aae64865ae0968df5234a00150b9aa2e
Filesize: 34.156 KB

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