[Whonix-devel] How to confirm jitter .ko was loaded

Stephan Mueller smueller at chronox.de
Fri Apr 26 22:43:11 CEST 2019


Am Freitag, 26. April 2019, 18:08:48 CEST schrieb procmem at riseup.net:

Hi,
> 
> Yeah this is likely the problem I think. 'y' would make it load always
> while 'm' means the module is available to be called upon and loaded
> when needed but otherwise it is dormant.

Hm, I do not think that setting it to y is what is necessary. 

In crypto/Kconfig:

config CRYPTO_DRBG
        tristate
        default CRYPTO_DRBG_MENU
        select CRYPTO_RNG
        select CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY

So, if the DRBG is selected as m, jitterentropy is selected as m. If the DRBG 
is y, jitterentropy is y.

Let us go back to your issue: why do you think you need the jitterentropy RNG 
in the kernel to begin with?

Ciao
Stephan




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