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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG
On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 05:06:18PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 01:51:27PM +0100, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> >
> > So I must expose it as a crypto_rng ?
>
> If it is to be exposed at all then algif_rng would be the best
> place.
>

I have badly said my question.
So I need to use the HW PRNG in a crypto_rng "provider" that could be thereafter used from user space via algif_rng. right ?

> > Could you explain why PRNG must not be used as hw_random ?
>
> The hwrng interface was always meant to be an interface for real
> hardware random number generators. People rely on that so we
> should not provide bogus entropy sources through this interface.
>

Why not adding a KCONFIG HW_RANDOM_ACCEPT_ALSO_PRNG with big warning ?
Or a HW_PRNG Kconfig which do the same than hwrandom with /dev/prng ?
With that it will be much easier to convert in-tree PRNG that you want to remove.

Regards
Corentin Labbe

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