security/bitstir 0.2nb2 NetBSD

Entropy restoration daemon

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System: NetBSD
Repository: pkgsrc
Maintainer: [email protected]
Categories: security
Package size: 10.8 KiB, 34.1 KiB installed

Description

Bitstir monitors the level of entropy available from /dev/random and generates disk activity to automatically restore this level when it gets low. Programs which block when entropy runs out are delayed only momentarily if at all.

Install

Binary package:

pkgin install bitstir

From pkgsrc:

cd /usr/pkgsrc/security/bitstir && make install clean

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repository

Version

NetBSD 10.1 x86_64

0.2nb2

NetBSD 10.1 aarch64

0.2nb2

SmartOS / illumos x86_64

macOS 15 arm64

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.