Thread (27 messages) 27 messages, 8 authors, 2018-07-01

Re: [PATCH 3/3] hwrng: msm - Add support for prng v2

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: 2018-06-21 11:53:28
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On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 02:27:10PM +0300, Stanimir Varbanov wrote:
OK, I just wanted to say that it is _not_ PRNG and the register names
gives us wrong impression.
So does it generate one bit of output for each bit of hardware-
generated entropy like /dev/random? Or does it use a hardware-
generated seed to power a PRNG?

Cheers,
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