Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add support for Qualcomm's PRNG

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On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 07:23:50PM +0300, Stanimir Varbanov wrote:
> I guess that it should follow NIST 800-90 recommendation, but I'm not
> aware what DRBG mechanism is used.
> 
> To be honest I really don't know the hardware implementation details. I
> put PRNG abbreviation in the cover letter just because I saw that
> defines for register offsets are prefixed with PRNG_*. I could rename
> all occurrences of PRNG to RNG. Is that will be enough to avoid confusions?

If that's what the Qualcomm documentation uses, maybe we should stick
with it, and add some explanatory comments.  Is there any
documentation for this block that is public that you can either send
me a a pointer to?

Thanks,

					- Ted
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