[Whonix-devel] jitterentropy_rng.ko never loads

[procmem at riseup.net]

Package: linux-image-amd64
Version: 4.19+104
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

As part of my work on a downstream privacy distro, I tested jitternentropy-rngd while integrating it and discovered the complementing kernel module jitterentropy_rng.ko never loads on boot as it is supposed to when the userspace jitterentropy daemon is installed. As a VM based OS a reliable entropy source that guarantees /dev/urandom is safely seeded is a priority. To test if it works one would see the signs described by the jitter dev Stephan Mueller [0]. I;ve confirmed that oddly no dmesg messages appear and the userspace service churns along fine despite the module silently never loading. Please try to fix this when possible. I will report this problem against the jitter package too.

TIA 

[0] https://www.whonix.org/pipermail/whonix-devel/2019-April/001365.html
[1] https://www.whonix.org/pipermail/whonix-devel/2019-April/001366.html