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Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG

From Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG
Date 2016-12-07 14:00 +0100
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On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 08:09:00PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 01:57:38PM +0100, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> >
> > So how to expose PRNG to user space ? or more generally how to "use" a PRNG ?
> 
> We do have the algif_rng interface.
> 

So I must expose it as a crypto_rng ?

Could you explain why PRNG must not be used as hw_random ?

Regards
Corentin Labbe

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[PATCH v2] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 12:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-12-05 13:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 14:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-12-07 13:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> - 2016-12-07 14:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-12-08 10:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> - 2016-12-08 10:30 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com> - 2016-12-08 12:10 +0100

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