From: smueller@chronox.de (Stephan Müller)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Question - seeding the hw pseudo random number generator
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 14:06:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <25271998.F6jFv7Sebt@positron.chronox.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170323094406.GA6848@gondor.apana.org.au>
Am Donnerstag, 23. M?rz 2017, 10:44:06 CET schrieb Herbert Xu:
Hi Herbert,
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 09:23:07AM +0100, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> > 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.
> Stephan may have a tool to do this. Stephan?
Here is a suggestion for such a tool that I could add to libkcapi. Naturally,
this code is only a demonstrator which lacks some features.
Ciao
Stephan
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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
2017-03-23 9:44 ` Herbert Xu
2017-03-23 11:44 ` Stephan Müller
2017-03-23 13:06 ` Stephan Müller [this message]
2017-03-26 4:10 ` Stephan Müller
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