From: clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com (Corentin Labbe)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Question - seeding the hw pseudo random number generator
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:23:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170323082307.GB16625@Red> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170320132858.GA27044@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 09:28:58PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 12:19:32PM +0530, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan wrote:
> >
> > AF_ALG interface for rng does have seeding support. I think hw_random
> > does not provide seeding support intentionally as I understand that
> > True RNG need not require seeding (please correct me if I am wrong).
>
> Yes. We should be converting PRNGs in hwrng over to algif_rng.
>
Problem with this conversion, a huge regression for user space.
Using hwrng is simple as cat /dev/hwrng.
Using algif_rng via AF_ALG is ... unusable for the moment.
Perhaps creating an user space tool (prng-tool which provide a cat /dev/hwrng replacement) is mandatory before any convertion.
Regards
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-23 8:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-18 9:25 Question - seeding the hw pseudo random number generator Krzysztof Kozlowski
2017-03-20 6:49 ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
2017-03-20 13:28 ` Herbert Xu
2017-03-20 13:39 ` Stephan Müller
2017-03-23 8:03 ` Harald Freudenberger
2017-03-23 11:35 ` Stephan Müller
2017-03-20 18:24 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2017-03-23 8:23 ` Corentin Labbe [this message]
2017-03-23 9:44 ` Herbert Xu
2017-03-23 11:44 ` Stephan Müller
2017-03-23 13:06 ` Stephan Müller
2017-03-26 4:10 ` Stephan Müller
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