On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 05:19:13AM -0500, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019, at 10:36, Michael Stone wrote:
Yes, but most of those features are obsolescent at best. I'm not clear
on what functionality is actually being used. (I'm hesitant to remove
"old" rng-tools is better for any low-bandwidth RNGs, so I am not sure it is
obsolescent: that depends entirely on whether people still design/have low-bandwidth RNGs
worth supporting.
Yes, exactly: it's definitely better for a certain class of hardware,
but I'm honestly just not sure whether any of those are still relevant.
(Like, do they work with current kernels, are they in hardware that's
otherwise supported, etc.?) I'd love to see reports from people who are
still using the older version for functionality that isn't in the newer
version to help inform what we should do. I'm conservative enough that I
don't want to break existing installs (especially for something that's
security-relevant) but it would be nice to know whether I'm being overly
cautious on that.
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Michael Stone
