It should be running, but maybe the config has changed since 2021. I don't have any BCM2835 devices running right now, but try this in the command line:If you see the hwrng process, it's running. The rngd process mentioned in the old thread isn't required any more
/dev/hwrng can only be read as root. That's okay, because /dev/urandom is just as good. No, really it is. Myths about /dev/urandom are still as true as when the article was first written.
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ps aux | grep hwrngroot 62 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Feb14 0:00 [hwrng]/dev/hwrng can only be read as root. That's okay, because /dev/urandom is just as good. No, really it is. Myths about /dev/urandom are still as true as when the article was first written.
Statistics: Posted by scruss — Wed Mar 05, 2025 4:11 am