On 10/15/2013 03:11 PM, Stanimir Varbanov wrote:
> This patch set adds hardware RNG driver wich is used to control the
> Qualcomm's PRNG hardware block.
I still haven't seen anyone address the "P" bit of the "PRNG"... what is
the (guaranteed) entropic level of the output?
-hpa
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On 10/10/2013 03:41 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 08:07:35AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>> consider the PowerPC random number generator[1]) and
>
> [snip]
>
>> [1] which has a known first-order bias which they "correct" for by
&g
On 10/09/2013 09:03 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 08:07:35AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> There needs to be an architecturally guaranteed lower bound on the
>> entropic content for this to be at all useful. However, the hwrandom
>> interface is
On 10/09/2013 07:46 AM, Stanimir Varbanov wrote:
>
> No, there is no public documentation for the block. Here is the driver
> documentation which I used as a base [1].
>
> My guess was that - if it is PRNG (got from hardware description link
> above) than according to wiki [2] it is also known as
