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LCE: Don't play dice with random numbers

LCE: Don't play dice with random numbers

Posted Nov 21, 2012 0:59 UTC (Wed) by hpa (subscriber, #48575)
In reply to: LCE: Don't play dice with random numbers by nim-nim
Parent article: LCE: Don't play dice with random numbers

The right solution for TPM usage is the tpm-rng module which is coming in Linux 3.7. In the meantime, you may have to check to see if you have tcsd running (which conflicts with rngd if tpm-rng is not available.)


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LCE: Don't play dice with random numbers

Posted Nov 21, 2012 6:22 UTC (Wed) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]

nope, no tscd running (or installed)

3.7.0-0.rc6.git1.1.fc19.x86_64

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