ent

[technosf]

Package Details: ent 1.1-3

Package Base: ent
Description: Pseudorandom number sequence test
First Submitted: 2009-01-02 18:34
Last Updated: 2015-05-17 13:03

Cheers!

[WarheadsSE]

I do not understand.

What about this apparent package, ent, that seems to be from AUR?

[technosf]

Could you add ent to the archlinuxarm repo Warhead? Please?

It builds/works on armv5. Anything else I can do to make this happen? Please let me know.

Hope that clarifies.

[WarheadsSE]

But why? If it is an AUR package, we are not going to drag it into aur/ without good reason.

[technosf]

Given the issues with PRNGs and OpenSSL, it would be helpful to have a mechanism to hand to verify the quality of whichever entropy source we have available. Hence ent.

It is easy to build, but I would imagine that assuring the quality of entropy/keys etc will be increasingly current to a growing number of people, especially given that ARM devices are more likely to be attached to the 'net.

[WarheadsSE]

Are you going to curate and maintain this package? You would be held solely responsible for it.

I am not going to add such a simple to compile package to the aur/ subset "for convenience"

[technosf]

Understood - I'll stick to handrolling it.

Thnx.