Stanimir Varbanov wrote: > I ran the rngtest with following command line: > > # cat /dev/hw_random | rngtest -c 100000 > ... > rngtest: bits received from input: 2000000032 > rngtest: FIPS 140-2 successes: 99925 > rngtest: FIPS 140-2 failures: 75 > ... > > Could you guys comment those results?
These tests are expected to fail a few times even for perfectly random data (think monkeys/Shakespeare). An entropy source will be permanently disabled by rngd only if the failure ratio is worse than 1 in 1000. Regards, Clemens -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
