Question - seeding the hw pseudo random number generator
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From: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au (Herbert Xu)
Date: 2017-03-23 09:44:06
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On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 09:23:07AM +0100, Corentin Labbe wrote:
Problem with this conversion, a huge regression for user space. Using hwrng is simple as cat /dev/hwrng. Using algif_rng via AF_ALG is ... unusable for the moment. Perhaps creating an user space tool (prng-tool which provide a cat /dev/hwrng replacement) is mandatory before any convertion.
Stephan may have a tool to do this. Stephan? 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