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From: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
To: Andrzej Zaborowski <andrew.zaborowski@intel.com>
Cc: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] crypto: RSA padding transform
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2015 17:10:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1917255.6DsdEGCabm@tauon.atsec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOq732K1k0qsgZx8qxoPj=Hq2fNZTVWQbf5=hwF6k9-ya36THA@mail.gmail.com>

Am Montag, 7. September 2015, 16:42:42 schrieb Andrzej Zaborowski:

Hi Andrzej,
>
>Specifically I use 1 + prandom_u32_max(255) which should give me
>numbers > 0 although it can't be perfectly uniform.

Oh, now I see. Thanks for the clarification. And yes, per definition the 
values cannot be uniform (not just because of the +1 but also since prandom is 
not a cryptographic RNG).


Ciao
Stephan

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-07 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-05 23:00 [RFC PATCH] crypto: RSA padding transform Andrew Zaborowski
2015-09-06  8:34 ` Stephan Mueller
2015-09-06 14:33   ` Andrzej Zaborowski
2015-09-06 21:17     ` Stephan Mueller
2015-09-07 14:42       ` Andrzej Zaborowski
2015-09-07 15:10         ` Stephan Mueller [this message]
2015-09-07 14:31     ` Tadeusz Struk
2015-09-07 17:54       ` Stephan Mueller
2015-09-08 16:09         ` Andrzej Zaborowski
2015-10-30  8:35           ` Marcel Holtmann
2015-09-08  1:07       ` Herbert Xu
2015-09-07 14:11   ` Tadeusz Struk
2015-09-07 15:07     ` Stephan Mueller
2015-09-07 14:06 ` Tadeusz Struk
2015-09-07 14:38   ` Andrzej Zaborowski

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