On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 03:02:04PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
The traditional workaround was something like# echo "HRNGDEVICE=/dev/urandom" >> /etc/default/rng-tools
If you were doing that you were defeating the purpose of the program. If you have no entropy sources for rngd, the best approach would be to remove the program; failing to start is its correct behavior.
The software is not relevant for most systems these days.