From: maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com (Maxime Ripard)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] nvmem: sunxi-sid: SID content is not a valid source of randomness
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 22:10:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161024201020.h6akyqad2o42xkhq@lukather> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1477144408-15896-1-git-send-email-clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com>
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.
> it must not be used as source of randomness.
And I don't think that's true either. A constant entropy provider will
not add any entropy, but will not remove any, would it?
Maxime
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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-22 13:53 [PATCH] nvmem: sunxi-sid: SID content is not a valid source of randomness Corentin Labbe
2016-10-24 20:10 ` Maxime Ripard [this message]
2016-10-25 5:38 ` LABBE Corentin
2016-10-25 7:06 ` Jean-Francois Moine
2016-10-28 12:37 ` LABBE Corentin
2016-10-25 13:26 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-11-10 15:14 ` Corentin Labbe
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