NEWS

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   2 Version 4 (August 2, 2012):
   3 * Add RDRAND instruction support
   4 * Add -q and -v options for quiet and verbose output
   5 * Add -p option for specifying PID file (text file containing daemon's PID)
   6 * Disable entropy source if facing continued failures, but be
   7   tolerant of the occasional fault.
   8 * Default device is now the preferred /dev/hwrng
   9 * Do not use TPM device for RNG access, if /dev/hwrng is present
  10   (TPM RNG is exported via the kernel, in newer kernels)
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  12 Version 3 (July 3, 2010):
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  14 * add rngtest program
  15 * imported into git repository
  16 * support TPM chip's hardware RNG (and thus, a framework for supporting
  17   multiple entropy sources)
  18 * change default hardware RNG device name to "/dev/hw_random"
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  20 Version 2 (August 24, 2004):
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  22 * Fixes and cleanups from Debian (Henrique de Moraes Holschuh)
  23   Assures rngd works with 2.6 kernels.
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  25 Version 1.1 (April 6, 2004):
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  27 * update to recent autoconf/automake
  28 * add new rngtest program
  29 * various minor cleanups
  30 * much better FIPS testing
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