On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:35:17PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 07:09:50AM -0500, Neil Horman wrote: > > > > I take your point, but I'm not certain I agree that we are duplicating an > > existing user interface. A cursory glance would say that we are, but > > /dev/random and /dev/urandom really just provide access to the kernels entropy > > pools, whereas the AF_ALG provides access to instances of any RNG the kernel has > > to offer as well as the key management services that AF_ALG has, which I think > > is adventageous, given that the CPRNG requires keying to work properly. > > I'm not talking about /dev/random, I'm talking the hwrng interface > in drivers/char/hwrng. > Doh! I'm sorry, that was stupid of me. Yes that makes alot more sense. I'll try another pass, adding the cprng to that interface instead. Thanks! Neil > Cheers, > -- > Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ > PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
