Am Freitag, 8. Mai 2020, 14:26:41 CEST schrieb Alexander Dahl: Hi Alexander, > 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.) Interrupts, HID events, block device events, external sources. For a full analysis, see [1] [1] https://bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/BSI/Publications/Studies/ LinuxRNG/LinuxRNG_EN.pdf Ciao Stephan
