Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 11.0

Chapter 4. Security

Haveged-1.9.14

Introduction to Haveged

The Haveged package contains a daemon that generates an unpredictable stream of random numbers and feeds the /dev/random device.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.0 platform.

Package Information

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/haveged

Installation of Haveged

Install Haveged by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install &&
mkdir -pv    /usr/share/doc/haveged-1.9.14 &&
cp -v README /usr/share/doc/haveged-1.9.14

Configuring haveged

Systemd Unit

If you want the Haveged daemon to start automatically when the system is booted, install the haveged.service unit included in the blfs-systemd-units-20210819 package (as the root user): 

make install-haveged

Contents

Installed Programs: haveged
Installed Libraries: libhavege.so
Installed Directory: /usr/include/haveged and /usr/share/doc/haveged-1.9.14

Short Descriptions

haveged

is a daemon that generates an unpredictable stream of random numbers harvested from the indirect effects of hardware events based on hidden processor states (caches, branch predictors, memory translation tables, etc)

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