On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 04:00:42PM +0200, Marco Felsch wrote:
The RM describes the RNGB as follow:
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The RNGB uses the True Random Number Generator (TRNG) and a
Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) to achieve a true randomness and
cryptographic strength.
8<----------------------------------------------------------------
The RNGB has 3 operation modes: self-test, seed-generation and the final
'random number generation' mode. Before we can retrieve random numbers
from the RNGB we need to generate the seed pool:
8<----------------------------------------------------------------
During the seed generation, the RNGB adds the entropy generated in the
TRNG to the 256-bit XKEY register. The PRNG algorithm executes 20.000
entropy samples from the TRNG to create an initial seed for the random
number generation.
8<----------------------------------------------------------------
The RNGB can generate 2^20 words (1 word == 4 byte) of 'random' data
after the seed pool was initialized. The pool needs to be reseeded if
more words are required. The reseeding is done automatically since
commit 3acd9ea9331c ("hwrng: imx-rngc - use automatic seeding").
We can't retrieve the TRNG values directly so we need a other way to get
the quality level. We know that the PRNG uses 20.000 entropy samples
from the TRNG to generate 2^20 words (1MiB) and the quality level is
defined as (in bits of entropy per 1024 bits of input). So the quality
level can be calculated by:
20.000 * 1024
------------- = ~ 19.5
2^20
Signed-off-by: Marco Felsch <redacted>
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drivers/char/hw_random/imx-rngc.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
Patch applied. Thanks.
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