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Haveged

services.haveged.enable

Whether to enable haveged entropy daemon, which refills /dev/random when low. NOTE: does nothing on kernels newer than 5.6 . Type: boolean

Default

false

Example

true

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/security/haveged.nix

services.haveged.refill_threshold

The number of bits of available entropy beneath which haveged should refill the entropy pool.

Type: signed integer

Default

1024

Declared by: https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/security/haveged.nix