Fwd: [PATCH] CPU Jitter RNG: inclusion into kernel crypto API and /dev/random

2013-10-14 Thread Sandy Harris
Stephan Mueller smuel...@chronox.de wrote: Paper has: the time delta is partitioned into chunks of 1 bit starting at the lowest bit The 64 1 bit chunks of the time value are XORed with each other to form a 1 bit value. As I read that, you are just taking the parity. Why not use that

Re: Fwd: [PATCH] CPU Jitter RNG: inclusion into kernel crypto API and /dev/random

2013-10-14 Thread Stephan Mueller
Am Montag, 14. Oktober 2013, 09:38:34 schrieb Sandy Harris: Hi Sandy, Stephan Mueller smuel...@chronox.de wrote: If what you are doing is not a parity computation, then you need a better description so people like me do not misread it. It is not a parity computation that the folding loop

Re: Fwd: [PATCH] CPU Jitter RNG: inclusion into kernel crypto API and /dev/random

2013-10-14 Thread Stephan Mueller
Am Montag, 14. Oktober 2013, 16:12:24 schrieb Stephan Mueller: Hi Sandy, (PS: I am aware that in case none of the individual bits would contain one full bit of entropy, the folding operation may --mathematically spoken-- not deliver one full bit of entropy. However, after speaking with a