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| From | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG |
| Date | 2016-12-08 10:10 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <sM2Se-4hp-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 01:51:27PM +0100, Corentin Labbe wrote: > > So I must expose it as a crypto_rng ? If it is to be exposed at all then algif_rng would be the best place. > Could you explain why PRNG must not be used as hw_random ? The hwrng interface was always meant to be an interface for real hardware random number generators. People rely on that so we should not provide bogus entropy sources through this interface. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
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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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