Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Jul 2018 14:27:34 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] hwrng: msm - Add support for prng v2 |
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On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 02:07:32PM +0530, Vinod wrote: > > I think Stan did bring this point earlier that PRNG is compliant to > FIPS-140-2. So it can be used by rng clients for various purposes but > should not be fed to dev/random as the hw_random does. > > Herbert, can you please confirm..
Yes this is a PRNG. A hardware RNG should return 1 bit of entropy per bit of output.
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