Question - seeding the hw pseudo random number generator
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From: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au (Herbert Xu)
Date: 2017-03-20 13:28:58
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On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 12:19:32PM +0530, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan wrote:
AF_ALG interface for rng does have seeding support. I think hw_random does not provide seeding support intentionally as I understand that True RNG need not require seeding (please correct me if I am wrong).
Yes. We should be converting PRNGs in hwrng over to algif_rng. Thanks, -- Email: Herbert Xu [off-list ref] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt