By priority I mean, which software tool is worth packaging, installation by default? Which Software Package?
For example randomsound is not worth it as randomsound is being discouraged nowadays by its author [archive]. Therefore I guess we can scratch audio-entropyd too? On the other hand we could just try either randomsound and/or audio-entropyd. Randomness can never get worse. We could test if there is zero noise nowadays or if it’s still worth something.
Is timer_entropyd same as haveged or jitterentropy-rng? Or is it different?
- Do reasons that made randomsound author discourage use of randomsound nowadays [archive] also similarly apply to video-entropyd?
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VideoEntropyd is like timer-entropyd for a ‘video-4-linux’-compatible device. E.g. a tv-card or a webcam.
- In our security guide we recommend to disable webcams in BIOS, to cover them or even physically remove them. Therefore worth bothering with it? If a webcam was blocked with a sticker would there be any noise that would generate randomness? The author will probably say we should check for ourselves. Any contributors coming to mind up to test that? Worth it? (Would be done on the host. Not inside VM. Any entropy enhancement of the host also makes VMs benefit.)
EGD - The Entropy Gathering Daemon looks quite old already. Worth contacting its author asking if it could still be useful nowadays? Useful to redirect its output of entropy to /dev/random?
Similar: http://prngd.sourceforge.net/
Any other entropy generators?
Once there is any generator that generates randomness, I can do the polish. That is packaging, running it at early boot as daemon and redirecting the output of the randomness generator to /dev/random.