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Re: [PATCH] nvmem: sunxi-sid: SID content is not a valid source of randomness

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First post2016-10-28 14:50 +0200
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  Re: [PATCH] nvmem: sunxi-sid: SID content is not a valid source of  randomness LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> - 2016-10-28 14:50 +0200

#1511115 — Re: [PATCH] nvmem: sunxi-sid: SID content is not a valid source of randomness

FromLABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com>
Date2016-10-28 14:50 +0200
SubjectRe: [PATCH] nvmem: sunxi-sid: SID content is not a valid source of randomness
Message-ID<sxeLE-8o2-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 09:06:34AM +0200, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 07:38:55 +0200
> LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 03:53:28PM +0200, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> > > > Since SID's content is constant over reboot,
> > > 
> > > That's not true, at least not across all the Allwinner SoCs, and
> > > especially not on the A10 and A20 that this driver supports.
> > > 
> > 
> > On my cubieboard2 (A20)
> > hexdump -C /sys/devices/platform/soc\@01c00000/1c23800.eeprom/sunxi-sid0/nvmem 
> > 00000000  16 51 66 83 80 48 50 72  56 54 48 48 03 c2 75 72  |.Qf..HPrVTHH..ur|
> > 00000010  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
> > *
> > 00000100  16 51 66 83 80 48 50 72  56 54 48 48 03 c2 75 72  |.Qf..HPrVTHH..ur|
> > 00000110  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
> > *
> > 00000200
> > cubiedev ~ # reboot
> > cubiedev ~ # hexdump -C /sys/devices/platform/soc\@01c00000/1c23800.eeprom/sunxi-sid0/nvmem 
> > 00000000  16 51 66 83 80 48 50 72  56 54 48 48 03 c2 75 72  |.Qf..HPrVTHH..ur|
> > 00000010  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
> > *
> > 00000100  16 51 66 83 80 48 50 72  56 54 48 48 03 c2 75 72  |.Qf..HPrVTHH..ur|
> > 00000110  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
> > *
> > 00000200
> > 
> > So clearly for me its constant.
> 
> Even after power off/power on?

Yes, even after remove of any power supply.

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