Re: [PATCH v1] crypto: caam - set hwrng quality level

On 8/3/2017 6:17 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:

On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 02:03:14PM +0000, Horia Geantă wrote:

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Take CAAM's engine HWRNG: it can work both as a TRNG and as a
TRNG-seeded DRBG (that's how it's currently configured).
IIUC, both setups are fit as source for the entropy pool.

So which is it? If it's a DRBG then it should not be exposed through
the hwrng interface.  Only TRNG should go through hwrng.  DRBGs
can use the crypto rng API.

Right now it's configured as a DRBG.
If I read correctly, it doesn't matter it's using the internal TRNG for
(automated) seeding, it still shouldn't use hwrng.
This means it's broken since the very beginning:
e24f7c9e87d4 crypto: caam - hwrng support

Thanks,
Horia