Hi Henrique, On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 07:24:58AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 09 Aug 2016, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > RHEL 7 and Fedora do not adjust it. So, shall we consider those rng-tools then > > broken (at least in those large distros)? > > Might I humbly suggest that the kernel start providing some metatada > about the quality of the random source that userspace can consume? > Preferably by a new ioctl, so that it will fit naturally if we ever > extend /dev/hwrng to support more than one source? > > That would allow for auto tunning to be implemented in userspace... See my reply to Keith Packard's proposed multi-device hw_random patch: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160809165710.GC2013@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and top of thread: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469477255-26824-1-git-send-email-keithp@xxxxxxxxxx thx, Jason. -- 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
