From: Jeff Garzik Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 18:55:47 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Polish README a bit. X-Git-Tag: v4~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=90f24ea755f579ba06e1c0718d2af8c75cdd9273;p=thirdparty%2Frng-tools.git Polish README a bit. --- diff --git a/README b/README index a117ca6..d407fae 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,8 +1,13 @@ This is a random number generator daemon. -It monitors a hardware random number generator, and supplies entropy from that -to the system /dev/random machinery. +It monitors a hardware random number generator, and supplies entropy +from that to the system kernel's /dev/random machinery. + +It is hoped that future contributions will enable entropy gathering +from other sources, such as audio hardware or video hardware or CPU +instruction pointers, to provide entropy even in cases where a true +hardware RNG is not present. Home page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/