On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 10:07:29AM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > Herbert, Matt, should such noise sources be added to the HW random framework? > The thing is that the in-kernel HW random to input_pool link per default uses > a more conservative entropy estimate than the user space rngd. I would think > that the in-kernel link would appropriate for that rng. But the user space > rngd tool with its default behavior is not really suited here. Yes hwrng would be the best fit, with a quality of zero to be safe. Contrary to the quoted thread, there is no need to whiten the output /dev/hw_random. It was always meant to go through some intermediate processing such as rngd before it is used. 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
