[2012-06-03 20:48:21 +0200] Tobias Powalowski:
with enabling pacman signing, shouldn't we add the rng-tools to extra to be able to use it on install media too?
For interactive installers, it seems to me like a better solution to simply ask the user to provide true entropy through typing random stuff on their keyboards - shouldn't take more than twenty seconds or so. For virtual machines, I use the stupid code attached to transfer entropy from the host to the guest. I don't know rng-tools but if it better answers either problem it would indeed be nice to have it in [extra].
Or is there any way to generate entropy without it and without user interaction?
Linux gathers entropy from IDE timings, so any kind of disk activity will refill the pool over time. Cheers. -- Gaetan