Entropy Gathering Daemon
EGD is an Entropy Gathering Daemon meant to be used on systems that can run GPG but which don't have a convenient (or reliable) source of random bits. It is a regular user-space program that sits around, running programs like 'w' and 'last' and 'vmstat', collecting the randomness (or at least the unpredictability) inherent in the output of these system statistics programs when used on a reasonably busy system. It slowly stirs the output of these gathering programs into a pool of entropy, much like the linux kernel device, and allows other programs to read out random bits from this pool.
Release | Stable | Testing |
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Fedora Rawhide | 0.9-30.fc40 | - |
Fedora 40 | 0.9-30.fc40 | - |
Fedora 39 | 0.9-28.fc39 | - |
Fedora 38 | 0.9-27.fc38 | - |
You can contact the maintainers of this package via email at
egd dash maintainers at fedoraproject dot org
.