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Remove indexes from man page
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There is no need to document them there, as the rngd list output
ennumerates them properly

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <[email protected]>
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nhorman authored and Neil Horman committed Nov 29, 2022
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Expand Up @@ -144,20 +144,20 @@ The following entropy sources are currently defined in rngd

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Hardware RNG (hwrng) [Index 0]
Hardware RNG (hwrng)
The Hardware RNG is a generic entropy source that draws entropy from a hardware
rng attached by default to /dev/hwrng

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TPM (tpm) [Index 1]
TPM (tpm)
Entropy drawn from on board TPM device. Note this entropy source is deprecated
and will be removed soon, as newer tpm devices export entropy via /dev/hwrng,
which is collected by the hwrng source above

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RDRAND/RDSEED (rdrand) [Index 2]
RDRAND/RDSEED (rdrand)
Entropy drawn from the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions (x86 only)
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DARN (darn) [Index 3]
DARN (darn)
Entropy drawn from the DARN instruction (ppc64 only)
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RNDR (rndr) [Index 8]
RNDR (rndr)
Entropy drawn from the RNDR instruction (aarch64 only)

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NIST Entropy Beacon (nist) [Index 4]
NIST Entropy Beacon (nist)
Entropy gathered from the NIST network entropy beacon. Note that this entropy
source is disabled by default as it should never be used for cryptographic
purposes, or any use case in which random data should be known only by a single
entity.

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Qrypt Entropy Beacon (qrypt) [Index 9]
Qrypt Entropy Beacon (qrypt)
Entropy gathered from the qrypt entropy beacon. Note this beacon provides
entropy to remote clients over a TLS connection. As such this source should not
be used for cryptographic operations unless the security of the network can be
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JITTER (jitter) [Index 5]
JITTER (jitter)
Entropy gathered by measuring timing variance of operations on the local cpu
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PKCS11 (pkcs11) [Index 6]
PKCS11 (pkcs11)
Entropy gathered via the opensc openssl engine, which can extract entropy from
various smart card readers
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RTLSDR (rtlsdr) [Index 7]
RTLSDR (rtlsdr)
Entropy gathered via the rtl software defined radio library, which can gather
entropy using various usb software defined radios listening to random radio
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