[OneRNG-Discuss] Debian 12 kernel ignoring entropy from OneRNG?

[Paul Campbell]

On Thursday, 14 March 2024 8:53:32 PM NZDT Tom Yates wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2024, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> > I'd be interested to know what kernel you were using on the Centos 7
> > machine - I think they only went up to something like 3.1.
> 
> 3.10.0, since you ask; but i'd agree that several oceans of work have
> flowed under the kernel's bridge since then.
> 
> > So I expect your key is working just fine, sending data to rngd; and
> > rngd is writing into /dev/random like it used to do - but the kernel is
> > ignoring it
> 
> Yes, that's what I'd suspected, too.

Oh, ignore my last post - for an older kernel (pre-5) that's likely true - the 
latest onerng scripts try and autoconfig this stuff 

    Paul