OVERVIEW

This directory contains seedrng, a simple program for seeding the Linux kernel random number generator from seed files.

This distribution is a fork of Jason A. Donenfeld's seedrng as of commit f68fee4 (Wed Apr 20 02:43:45 2022 +0200) with the following differences:

• add seedrng.8 manual page in mdoc(7) format
• move paths declaration from seedrng.c to pathnames.h
• suckless style build

See git log for complete/further differences.

The original sources can be downloaded from:

1. git://git.zx2c4.com/seedrng (git)
2. https://git.zx2c4.com/seedrng (web)

REQUIREMENTS

Build time

• C99 compiler
• POSIX sh(1p), make(1p) and "mandatory utilities"
• Linux kernel headers

INSTALL

SeedRNG is meant to be used by init system projects. Please do not use SeedRNG as a standalone program.

The shell commands make && make install should build and install this package.

See config.mk file for configuration parameters, and pathnames.h for absolute filenames that SeedRNG wants for various defaults.

USAGE

# seedrng

However, this invocation should generally come from init and shutdown scripts.

LICENSE

This program is licensed under any one of the following licenses, so that it can be incorporated into other software projects as needed:

• GPL-2.0
• Apache-2.0
• MIT
• BSD-1-Clause
• CC0-1.0