Re: jitterentropy_rng on armv5 embedded target

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Hello,

Am Freitag, 8. Mai 2020, 14:22:02 CEST schrieb Stephan Mueller:
> Am Freitag, 8. Mai 2020, 14:17:25 CEST schrieb Alexander Dahl:
> > Okay and DRBG has nothing to do with /dev/random ?
> 
> Nope, it is used as part of the kernel crypto API and its use cases.
> 
> > Then where do the random
> > numbers for that come from (in the current or previous kernels without
> > your
> > new lrng)?
> 
> The DRBG is seeded from get_random_bytes and the Jitter RNG.

Oh, I was not precise enough. I wanted to know where /dev/random gets its 
numbers from. As far as I understood now: not from DRBG? (Which is sufficient 
knowledge for my current problem.)

Greets
Alex






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