Am Dienstag, 9. August 2016, 16:58:58 CEST schrieb Herbert Xu: Hi Herbert, > 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. But shouldn't the default of the rngd then be adjusted a bit? > > Cheers, Ciao Stephan -- 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
