On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 01:51:27PM +0100, Corentin Labbe wrote: > > So I must expose it as a crypto_rng ? If it is to be exposed at all then algif_rng would be the best place. > Could you explain why PRNG must not be used as hw_random ? The hwrng interface was always meant to be an interface for real hardware random number generators. People rely on that so we should not provide bogus entropy sources through this interface. 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
