From: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, wens@csie.org,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com,
davem@davemloft.net, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 13:51:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161207125127.GB28218@Red> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161207120900.GC20680@gondor.apana.org.au>
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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From: clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com (Corentin Labbe)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 13:51:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161207125127.GB28218@Red> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161207120900.GC20680@gondor.apana.org.au>
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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From: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com,
wens@csie.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 13:51:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161207125127.GB28218@Red> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161207120900.GC20680@gondor.apana.org.au>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-07 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-05 10:48 [PATCH v2] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG Corentin Labbe
2016-12-05 10:48 ` Corentin Labbe
2016-12-05 10:48 ` Corentin Labbe
2016-12-05 12:37 ` Herbert Xu
2016-12-05 12:37 ` Herbert Xu
2016-12-05 12:57 ` Corentin Labbe
2016-12-05 12:57 ` Corentin Labbe
2016-12-07 12:09 ` Herbert Xu
2016-12-07 12:09 ` Herbert Xu
2016-12-07 12:51 ` Corentin Labbe [this message]
2016-12-07 12:51 ` Corentin Labbe
2016-12-07 12:51 ` Corentin Labbe
2016-12-08 9:06 ` Herbert Xu
2016-12-08 9:06 ` Herbert Xu
2016-12-08 9:24 ` Corentin Labbe
2016-12-08 9:24 ` Corentin Labbe
2016-12-08 11:01 ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
2016-12-08 11:01 ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
2016-12-13 14:10 ` Corentin Labbe
2016-12-13 14:10 ` Corentin Labbe
2016-12-13 15:23 ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
2016-12-13 15:23 ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
2016-12-13 15:33 ` Corentin Labbe
2016-12-13 15:33 ` Corentin Labbe
2016-12-13 15:33 ` Corentin Labbe
2016-12-14 5:05 ` Herbert Xu
2016-12-14 5:05 ` Herbert Xu
2016-12-14 6:03 ` Corentin Labbe
2016-12-14 6:03 ` Corentin Labbe
2016-12-14 19:17 ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
2016-12-14 19:17 ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
2016-12-14 19:17 ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
2016-12-15 6:09 ` Herbert Xu
2016-12-15 6:09 ` Herbert Xu
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