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egd

Entropy Gathering Daemon

About egd

Entropy Gathering Daemon

This project links 2 native package records across 2 recorded operating-system releases. Compare the retained versions and architectures below, then open the package for your own release.

These are catalog observations, not a guarantee of installation, compatibility, or upstream support.

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Project pictures and package coverage

Fedora 43: 1 package records; Fedora 44: 1 package records. Catalog coverage diagram, not an application screenshot.egd: recorded package coverageFedora 431 recordsFedora 441 records
OpenFactory diagram of linked package records. It is not an application screenshot.

Project identity

Project
egd
Publisher
Not authoritatively mapped
Native package records
2
Operating systems
fedora-43, fedora-44
License expression
GPL-1.0-or-later OR LicenseRef-Callaway-MIT
Metadata completeness
100/100 (not a software quality rating)
Homepage
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Source repository
Not reported

Source-reported description

The fullest retained description is shown with its source. Distribution packaging descriptions may include downstream details.

EGD is an Entropy Gathering Daemon meant to be used on systems that can run GPG but which don't have a convenient (or reliable) source of random bits. It is a regular user-space program that sits around, running programs like 'w' and 'last' and 'vmstat', collecting the randomness (or at least the unpredictability) inherent in the output of these system statistics programs when used on a reasonably busy system. It slowly stirs the output of these gathering programs into a pool of entropy, much like the linux kernel device, and allows other programs to read out random bits from this pool.

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Packages by operating system

Compare recorded versions, then open a package for dependency, file, checksum, and repository evidence. Version strings are distribution-specific, not a ranking of newer software.

Fedora 43

  1. egd

    Fedora 43 / Unspecified / source egd

    0.9-34.fc43

    Entropy Gathering Daemon

    noarch43

Fedora 44

  1. egd

    Fedora 44 / Unspecified / source egd

    0.9-35.fc44

    Entropy Gathering Daemon

    noarch44

Project resources and further reading

Mapping provenance

Only source-backed identity signals create public cross-OS links. A reviewer can later approve or dispute an inferred relationship without rewriting native package history.

No field-level source record is published yet.