On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 08:25:42AM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: > The user space Jitter RNG library uses the oversampling rate of 3 which > implies that each time stamp is credited with 1/3 bit of entropy. To > obtain 256 bits of entropy, 768 time stamps need to be sampled. The > increase in OSR is applied based on a report where the Jitter RNG is > used on a system exhibiting a challenging environment to collect > entropy. > > This OSR default value is now applied to the Linux kernel version of > the Jitter RNG as well. > > The increase in the OSR from 1 to 3 also implies that the Jitter RNG is > now slower by default. > > Reported-by: Jeff Barnes <jeffbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > crypto/Kconfig | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Patch applied. Thanks. -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
