Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Oct 2013 09:05:04 +0200 | From | Clemens Ladisch <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add support for Qualcomm's PRNG |
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Stanimir Varbanov wrote: > I ran the rngtest with following command line: > > # cat /dev/hw_random | rngtest -c 100000 > ... > rngtest: bits received from input: 2000000032 > rngtest: FIPS 140-2 successes: 99925 > rngtest: FIPS 140-2 failures: 75 > ... > > Could you guys comment those results?
These tests are expected to fail a few times even for perfectly random data (think monkeys/Shakespeare). An entropy source will be permanently disabled by rngd only if the failure ratio is worse than 1 in 1000.
Regards, Clemens
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