Hi Stephan, NIST SP 800-22-rev1a and NIST SP 800-90B are used together to evaluate the amount of min entropy the source provides, and not to decide if the source has passed the tests or failed. See https://github.com/usnistgov/SP800-90B_EntropyAssessment The goal is often to make sure the input entropy is more than the entropy we expect from the output. Thanks, Miaoqing -----Original Message----- From: Stephan Mueller [mailto:smueller@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2016 2:52 PM To: Pan, Miaoqing <miaoqing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>; miaoqing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Valo, Kalle <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ath9k-devel <ath9k-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Sepehrdad, Pouyan <pouyans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ath9k: disable RNG by default Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2016, 06:46:31 CEST schrieb Pan, Miaoqing: Hi Miaoqing, > Hi Stephan, > > Would you please provide a recent NIST document which asks the entropy > source to pass the NIST randomness tests ? See FIPS 140-2 IG 7.15 which explicitly references SP800-22. 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
