rng-tools-debian (2.2) unstable; urgency=medium

  This package took over the heavily extended 2.x branch of rng-tools.
  Please test whether rng-tools5 is enough for your use cases, and if
  so, consider switching to it.

  Devices are now checked whether they allow reading data before using
  unless HRNGDEVICE is set in /etc/default/rng-tools-debian manually.
  If no usable device can be found the init script no longer errors out
  (but does syslog it), so installing the package without a HWRNG is
  now possible without errors. HRNGSELECT, for e.g. choosing virtio-rng,
  is executed before these tests.

  Please consider loading any modules necessary in the initramfs so they
  are available early enough for the device to be online when rngd starts.

  rngd is currently started via initscript or manually; starting via udev
  is being discussed and will probably be implemented in bookworm.

 -- Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>  Wed, 11 Nov 2020 02:07:20 +0100

rng-tools (2-unofficial-mt.9-1) experimental; urgency=low

  rng-tools now features an user-space driver to interface to the VIA PadLock
  security engine's RNG.  In order to better support such extensions, rngd is
  being revised to work with better modularized entropy sources ("input drivers")
  and entropy sinks ("output drivers").

  To accomodate for these changes, the public interfaces have been changed
  slightly.  The "intel" TRNG profile has been renamed to "intelfwh" (in
  hindsight, it should have been named like that since day one).  The "via"
  TRNG profile has been renamed "viakernel", and a new TRNG profile,
  "viapadlock", was added.

  It is probable that the command line interface will be throughoutly modified
  soon, to better accomodate the modular drivers.

 -- Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>  Fri,  5 Nov 2004 08:57:35 -0200