Re: JZ4780 RNG and entropy depletion

Am Sonntag, 14. August 2016, 01:33:32 CEST schrieb Jeffrey Walton: Hi Jeffrey, > Hi Everyone, > > I have a MIPSEL ci20 dev board for testing. The board has a hardware > based rng, but its suffering entropy depletion. I have Debian's > rng-tools package installed. > > The board lacks

Re: [PATCH v2] RANDOM: ATH9K RNG delivers zero bits of entropy

Hey Ted, On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 07:44:25PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 02:04:44PM +, Jason Cooper wrote: > > iiuc, Ted, you're saying using the hw_random framework would be > > disasterous because despite most drivers having a default quality of 0, > > rngd assumes

JZ4780 RNG and entropy depletion

Hi Everyone, I have a MIPSEL ci20 dev board for testing. The board has a hardware based rng, but its suffering entropy depletion. I have Debian's rng-tools package installed. The board lacks /dev/hwrng. /dev/random blocks indefinitely after draining the device. "Indefinitely" may not be