Re: [PATCH 3/3] hwrng: msm - Add support for prng v2

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On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 02:07:32PM +0530, Vinod wrote:
>
> I think Stan did bring this point earlier that PRNG is compliant to
> FIPS-140-2. So it can be used by rng clients for various purposes but
> should not be fed to dev/random as the hw_random does.
> 
> Herbert, can you please confirm..

Yes this is a PRNG.  A hardware RNG should return 1 bit of entropy
per bit of output.

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