video-entropyd 0.8

video-entropyd is a program to add entropy data from video4linux devices to the kernel random driver. For security reasons (when doing network traffic or generating secure keys for example) one wants as much entropy-data in the kernel random-driver as possible. The random-driver takes partially care for this. But in situations in where theres a lot of demand for entropy-data, it might not be able to gather enough entropy-data by itself. Thats where this program is for: adding entropy-data to the kernel-driver. It does that by fetching 2 images from a video4linux-device (with a random delay in between), calculating the difference between those two and then calculating the number of information-bits in that data. After that, the data with the number-of-entropy-bits is submitted to the kernel-random-driver. After that, the program exits (when run from crontab) or sleeps a random time before redoing the same process. Whats New in This Release: - This version checks the quality of the data it feeds to the /dev/random-device to see if the data is really random. - Extra logging has been added.. www.vanheusden.com

Requirements:	No special requirements
Platforms:	Linux
Keyword:	Data,  Data From,  Entropy,  Kernel,  Miscellaneous,  Program,  Random,  Security,  Videoentropyd
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