EGD: Entropy Gathering Daemon

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Project Summary

The Entropy Gathering Daemon is a portable perl script which provides a source of randomness on systems that lack an in-kernel /dev/random. GnuPG, OpenSSH, and the OpenSSL toolkit can use EGD to seed their random number generators.

In a Nutshell, EGD: Entropy Gathering Daemon...

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has had 123 commits made by 2 contributors
representing 945 lines of code
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is mostly written in Perl
with an average number of source code comments
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has a codebase with a long source history
maintained by nobody
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 1 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in January, 1999
ending with its most recent commit over 23 years ago

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