On Wednesday, January 27, 2016 11:38:29 AM Joachim Strömbergson wrote: > Aloha! > > Fredrik Thulin wrote: > > On Monday, January 25, 2016 04:28:24 PM Joachim Strömbergson wrote: > >>> Having support for turning the > > > >>> entropy source off ana on adds quite a lot of complexity in terms > >>> of > > > >>> warm up times and startup testing vs starvation of RNG output > >>> and > > > >>> race problems. > > > > Don't we have this complexity already? We have to take care of it at > > boot time I guess. > > No we don't. There are some things in place and I've planned to do a lot > of work. But that work stalled when Leif told me to cut back.
So as I would put it, we have the complexity (to deal with the problem) but not the solution? My point is that we will have to deal with warmup/bootup tests regardless of if we do 1 or N bootups of the entropy source for every 1 bootup of the HSM. /Fredrik
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