OVERVIEW

This repository 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.

DOCUMENTATION

Basic usage

As root:

seedrng

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

Online documentation

Manual pages:

• seedrng.8

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