Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The signal-to-noise-ratio SNR is returned by the wcn36xx firmware for each
> received frame. SNR represents all of the unwanted interference signal
> after filtering out the fundamental frequency and harmonics of the
> frequency.
>
> Noise can come from various electromagnetic sources, from temperature
> affecting the performance hardware components or quantization effects
> converting from analog to digital domains.
>
> The SNR value returned by the WiFi firmware then is a good source of
> entropy.
>
> Other WiFi drivers offer up the noise component of the FFT as an entropy
> source for the random pool e.g.
>
> commit 2aa56cca3571 ("ath9k: Mix the received FFT bins to the random pool")
>
> I attended Jason's talk on sources of randomness at Plumbers and it
> occurred to me that SNR is a reasonable candidate to add.
>
> Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.
e1a6b5d3a971 wifi: wcn36xx: Add RX frame SNR as a source of system entropy
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