Re: Question - seeding the hw pseudo random number generator

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On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 12:19:32PM +0530, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan wrote:
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> AF_ALG interface for rng does have seeding support. I think hw_random
> does not provide seeding support intentionally as I understand that
> True RNG need not require seeding (please correct me if I am wrong).

Yes.  We should be converting PRNGs in hwrng over to algif_rng.

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