Question - seeding the hw pseudo random number generator

Herbert Xu herbert at gondor.apana.org.au
Thu Mar 23 02:44:06 PDT 2017


On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 09:23:07AM +0100, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> 
> Problem with this conversion, a huge regression for user space.
> Using hwrng is simple as cat /dev/hwrng.
> Using algif_rng via AF_ALG is ... unusable for the moment.
> Perhaps creating an user space tool (prng-tool which provide a cat /dev/hwrng replacement) is mandatory before any convertion.

Stephan may have a tool to do this.  Stephan?

Thanks,
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