Re: [PATCH]: fix repetition test for hardware RNG to be FIPS compliant (v2)

2009-09-15 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
* Neil Horman | 2009-09-14 12:30:43 [-0400]: >Ok, version 2 of the patch, taking comments into account looks good. Sebastian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.

Re: [PATCH]: fix repetition test for hardware RNG to be FIPS compliant (v2)

2009-09-14 Thread Neil Horman
Ok, version 2 of the patch, taking comments into account To be fips compliant, RNGs need to preform a continuous test on their output. Specifically the requirement is that the first block of random data generated in an RNG be saved to see the comparison test, and never returned to the caller. This