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SubjectRe: [PATCH] nvmem: sunxi-sid: SID content is not a valid source of randomness
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 09:06:34AM +0200, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 07:38:55 +0200
> LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 03:53:28PM +0200, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> > > > Since SID's content is constant over reboot,
> > >
> > > That's not true, at least not across all the Allwinner SoCs, and
> > > especially not on the A10 and A20 that this driver supports.
> > >
> >
> > On my cubieboard2 (A20)
> > hexdump -C /sys/devices/platform/soc\@01c00000/1c23800.eeprom/sunxi-sid0/nvmem
> > 00000000 16 51 66 83 80 48 50 72 56 54 48 48 03 c2 75 72 |.Qf..HPrVTHH..ur|
> > 00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
> > *
> > 00000100 16 51 66 83 80 48 50 72 56 54 48 48 03 c2 75 72 |.Qf..HPrVTHH..ur|
> > 00000110 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
> > *
> > 00000200
> > cubiedev ~ # reboot
> > cubiedev ~ # hexdump -C /sys/devices/platform/soc\@01c00000/1c23800.eeprom/sunxi-sid0/nvmem
> > 00000000 16 51 66 83 80 48 50 72 56 54 48 48 03 c2 75 72 |.Qf..HPrVTHH..ur|
> > 00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
> > *
> > 00000100 16 51 66 83 80 48 50 72 56 54 48 48 03 c2 75 72 |.Qf..HPrVTHH..ur|
> > 00000110 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
> > *
> > 00000200
> >
> > So clearly for me its constant.
>
> Even after power off/power on?

Yes, even after remove of any power supply.

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