Re: [PATCH 2/2] ath9k: export HW random number generator

Nick Kossifidis writes: > That was partially my intention too when I submitted > 2aa56cca3571fd08c0c38f3e2d4bb0bfb3def3c5 which mixes FFT measurements > to the entropy pool without providing any estimation on entropy > (entropy estimation is the wrong approach, read the

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ath9k: export HW random number generator

qualcomm.com>: > +Pouyan & David. > > -Original Message- > From: Kalle Valo [mailto:kv...@codeaurora.org] > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 3:09 PM > To: Stephan Mueller > Cc: Oleksij Rempel; Pan, Miaoqing; linvi...@tuxdriver.com; > linux-wirel...@vger.kernel.org; Theodo

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ath9k: export HW random number generator

es too). > > So please let's stop arguing about what is random, more random, higher > quality random etc. We have an entropy source here, let's use it. > We'll never be able to know how good it is anyway. > > > 2015-07-31 3:39 GMT-05:00 Pan, Miaoqing <miaoq...@qti.qualcomm.com

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ath9k: export HW random number generator

Stephan Mueller smuel...@chronox.de writes: -rw-rw-r-- 1 lex lex 2564096 Jul 27 11:36 hwrng.out -rw-rw-r-- 1 lex lex 2468394 Jul 27 11:36 hwrng.out.bz2 Do i understand it correctly, in case of hwrng bzip was able to find enough pattern to compressed the data? Even with format overhead? I'm no

RE: [PATCH 2/2] ath9k: export HW random number generator

...@tuxdriver.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ath9k: export HW random number generator Stephan Mueller smuel...@chronox.de writes: -rw-rw-r-- 1 lex lex 2564096 Jul 27 11:36 hwrng.out -rw-rw-r-- 1 lex lex 2468394 Jul 27 11:36 hwrng.out.bz2 Do i understand it correctly, in case of hwrng bzip was able to find

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ath9k: export HW random number generator

Am Dienstag, 28. Juli 2015, 13:41:57 schrieb Sandy Harris: Hi Sandy, However, the hwrandom framework does not provide any conditioning logic. At first sight, this sounds like a blunder to me, but I have not looked at hwrandom at all. Is there a rationale? I think hwrandom is solely a

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ath9k: export HW random number generator

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 7:01 AM, Stephan Mueller smuel...@chronox.de wrote: This one does not look good for a claim that the RNG produces white noise. An RNG that is wired up to /dev/hwrng should produce white noise. Either by having an appropriate noise source or by conditioning the output of

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ath9k: export HW random number generator

: Oleksij Rempel [mailto:li...@rempel-privat.de] Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2015 3:41 PM To: Pan, Miaoqing; linvi...@tuxdriver.com Cc: linux-wirel...@vger.kernel.org; ath9k-devel Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ath9k: export HW random number generator Hi all, i did rngtest on top of this patch