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| From | Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG |
| Date | 2017-06-21 08:50 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <tUHCG-2z2-15@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 01:45:36PM +0200, Corentin Labbe wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 11:59:47AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:58:19AM +0200, Corentin Labbe wrote: > > > The Security System have a PRNG, this patch add support for it via > > > crypto_rng. > > > > This might be a dumb question, but is the CRYPTO_RNG code really > > supposed to be used with PRNG? > > > > Yes, see recently added drivers/crypto/exynos-rng.c It's still not really clear from the commit log (if you're talking about c46ea13f55b6) why and if using the RNG code for a PRNG is a good idea. Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com
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[PATCH] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> - 2017-06-20 11:10 +0200
Re: [PATCH] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2017-06-20 12:00 +0200
Re: [PATCH] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> - 2017-06-20 13:50 +0200
Re: [PATCH] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2017-06-21 08:50 +0200
Re: [PATCH] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2017-06-22 01:50 +0200
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