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From: Stephan =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=FCller?= <smueller@chronox.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] crypto: hw_random - Add new Exynos RNG driver
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:55:22 +0100
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Am Freitag, 24. März 2017, 15:51:56 CET schrieb Krzysztof Kozlowski:

Hi Krzysztof,
> 
> I'll use the generated random numbers.

If you do that, may I propse that you update this seed field periodically? 
E.g. with every (or every other) user request for random data, you may update 
that field with new data.

Ciao
Stephan

From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: smueller@chronox.de (Stephan =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=FCller?=)
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:55:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] crypto: hw_random - Add new Exynos RNG driver
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Am Freitag, 24. M?rz 2017, 15:51:56 CET schrieb Krzysztof Kozlowski:

Hi Krzysztof,
> 
> I'll use the generated random numbers.

If you do that, may I propse that you update this seed field periodically? 
E.g. with every (or every other) user request for random data, you may update 
that field with new data.

Ciao
Stephan