>> The hwrng interface was always meant to be an interface for real >> hardware random number generators. People rely on that so we >> should not provide bogus entropy sources through this interface. >> > > Why not adding a KCONFIG HW_RANDOM_ACCEPT_ALSO_PRNG with big warning ? > Or a HW_PRNG Kconfig which do the same than hwrandom with /dev/prng ? > With that it will be much easier to convert in-tree PRNG that you want to > remove.
I do have driver for a PRNG that I was planning to post in sometime. Upon seeing this thread I think the code has to be changed. I completely agree with Corentin, adding /dev/prng or /dev/hw_prng will make it easier to move existing code. It can be made explicit that using new device will provide only pseudo random number. Thanks, PrasannaKumar -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
