https://www.nico-maas.de/tags/rng/ Recent content in RNG on Nico Maas Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 15 Feb 2017 15:00:45 +0000 https://www.nico-maas.de/posts/2017-02-15-raspberry-pi-and-its-hardware-random-number-generator-rng/ Wed, 15 Feb 2017 15:00:45 +0000 https://www.nico-maas.de/posts/2017-02-15-raspberry-pi-and-its-hardware-random-number-generator-rng/ <p>Due to a Stackoverflow Post I got to know the fact the BCM2708 / BCM2835 contains a Hardware Random Number Generator (RNG). Two blogposts described how to setup this little module, however, they were outdated, as the needed kernel module is directly baked into the latest 4.x kernel, which ends with the fact that <code>/dev/hwrng</code> already exists :).</p> <p>The only thing left to do is the installation of the rng-tools, which is easy as pie:</p>