RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH] crypto: caam - enable prediction resistance conditionally

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Hi Fabio,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 6:50 PM
> To: Horia Geanta <horia.geanta@xxxxxxx>; Varun Sethi <V.Sethi@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Andrei Botila
> <andrei.botila@xxxxxxx>; andrew.smirnov@xxxxxxxxx;
> fredrik.yhlen@xxxxxxxxx; hs@xxxxxxx; linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Fabio
> Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH] crypto: caam - enable prediction resistance
> conditionally
> 
> Caution: EXT Email
> 
> Hi Horia and Varun,
> 
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 4:44 AM Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > We've been in contact with Fabio and we're working on a solution.
> > Now I realize the list hasn't been Cc-ed - sorry for the confusion and
> > for not providing an explicit Nack.
> >
> > Herbert, could you please revert this patch?
> >
> > It's doing more harm than good, since it's making the internal CAAM
> > RNG work like a DRBG / PRNG (instead of TRNG) while the driver
> > registers to hwrng as an entropy source.
> 
> Any progress on the proper fix for this issue?
> 
[Varun] Yes, we have made progress on the fix. Currently we are testing the fix and should be able to post the patch upstream pretty soon.
> Thanks

Regards
Varun





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