Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Herring <> | Date | Fri, 14 Feb 2020 13:58:35 -0600 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] random: rng-seed source is utf-8 |
| |
On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 12:10 AM Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote: > > From: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com> > > commit 428826f5358c922dc378830a1717b682c0823160 > ("fdt: add support for rng-seed") makes the assumption that the data > in rng-seed is binary, when it is typically constructed of utf-8
Typically? Why is that?
> characters which has a bitness of roughly 6 to give appropriate > credit due for the entropy.
| |