Am Donnerstag, 23. März 2017, 10:44:06 CEST 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 ...
Am Donnerstag, 23. März 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 ...
Am Donnerstag, 23. März 2017, 09:03:23 CET schrieb Harald Freudenberger:
Hi Harald,
> I'll have a look on it. Currently the s390/crypto/prng seeds itself with
> an algorithm based on the jitter of the very fine granular hardware
> clock of a s390 machine. There were some thoughts and
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
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
On 03/20/2017 02:39 PM, Stephan Müller wrote:
> Am Montag, 20. März 2017, 14:28:58 CET schrieb Herbert Xu:
>
> Hi Herbert,
>
>> 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
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
Am Montag, 20. März 2017, 14:28:58 CET schrieb Herbert Xu:
Hi Herbert,
> 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
>
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.
> I looked at Exynos Pseudo Random Nubmer Generator driver
> (drivers/char/hw_random/exynos-rng.c) and noticed that it always seeds
> the device with jiffies. Then I looked at few other drivers and found
> that they do not seed themself (or at least I couldn't find this).
HW random interface is
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