Fedora 21 Update: rng-tools-5-4.fc21

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-17051
2014-12-16 21:10:39
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Name        : rng-tools
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 5
Release     : 4.fc21
URL         : http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/
Summary     : Random number generator related utilities
Description :
Hardware random number generation tools.

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Update Information:

Bugfix update — exit cleanly when no hardware is found, apply hardening flags.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Dec 10 2014 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek at in.waw.pl> - 5-4
- Build with hardening flags (#1051344)
- Fail nicely if no hardware generator is found (#892178)
- Drop unneeded dependency
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #892178 - rngd.service should behave more elegantly in the case where no hardware RNG is present
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892178
  [ 2 ] Bug #1051344 - no hardening build
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1051344
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