Improve entropy?

[ms (Michael Tremer)]

@roberto

Browsing the Internet I have found the following that may improve the entropy of machines that lack AES-NI.

AES-NI has nothing to do with entropy. You are thinking of RDRAND.

@ummeegge

have build them (jitterentropy-library and jitterentropy-rngd) longer time ago and populated them also in the old forum → https://forum.ipfire.org/viewtopic.php?t=21276#p118316 for a potential testing and discussion scenario. This topic includes also a link to both binaries but they are not actual. Am build them currently again in actual version which needs some time.

And this is already running inside the kernel. It uses exactly the same algorithm and I am not sure if any entropy can be fed to the kernel after the CRNG has been seeded. So I suppose those userspace tools have no effect.