On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 07:35:11PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: > Hi, > > the current implementation of the DRBG generates a shadow copy of its > DRBG state for each incoming request. The idea is that only a short > term lock is needed to spawn the shadow copy. The drawback is that > if multiple parallel requests come in, the generated DRBG shadow > states only differ by a high-resolution timer that was mixed in during > the shadow state generation. > > This patch now removes this shadow state and introduces a mutex > to serialize all requests to one DRBG instance. > > The patch was fully CAVS tested and demonstrates that the DRBG still > complies with the standard.
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