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| author | Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> | 2017-06-16 10:42:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> | 2017-06-16 10:42:44 +0200 |
| commit | b05a4abc358b204dba343d9cfbd59fdc828c1686 (patch) | |
| tree | cfa7f763b569535f5bf00cdc22292a8694a4fb5e /doc | |
| parent | f5e7763ddca59dcd9ac9f2f4d50cb41b14a34a9e (diff) | |
| download | libgcrypt-b05a4abc358b204dba343d9cfbd59fdc828c1686.tar.gz | |
Implement global config file /etc/gcrypt/random.conf
* src/hwfeatures.c (my_isascii): Move macro to ...
* src/g10lib.h: here.
* tests/random.c (main): Dump random stats.
* random/random.c (RANDOM_CONF_FILE): New.
(_gcry_random_read_conf): New.
(_gcry_random_dump_stats): Call rndjent stats.
* random/rndjent.c (jent_rng_totalcalls, jent_rng_totalbytes): New.
(_gcry_rndjent_poll): Take care of config option disable-jent. Wipe
buffer. Bump counters.
(_gcry_rndjent_dump_stats): New.
Signed-off-by: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/gcrypt.texi | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/gcrypt.texi b/doc/gcrypt.texi index ae66dfc2..3567582e 100644 --- a/doc/gcrypt.texi +++ b/doc/gcrypt.texi @@ -5455,6 +5455,21 @@ are: This file can be used to disable the use of hardware based optimizations, @pxref{hardware features}. + +@item /etc/gcrypt/random.conf +@cindex /etc/gcrypt/random.conf +This file can be used to globally change parameters of the random +generator. The file is a simple text file where empty lines and +lines with the first non white-space character being '#' are +ignored. Supported options are + +@table @file +@item disable-jent +@cindex disable-jent +Disable the use of the jitter based entropy generator. + +@end table + @item /etc/gcrypt/fips_enabled @itemx /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled @cindex /etc/gcrypt/fips_enabled |