FIPS test failure from rngd

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • Customer has hardware with tpm module that they wish to use as an entropy source
  • rngd started with rngd -t 1
  • Repeated "failed fips test" messages

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6

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