From: "Stephan Müller" <smueller@chronox.de>
To: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>,
Lukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@samsung.com>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>,
Matthias Brugger <mbrugger@suse.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>,
linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
Kukjin Kim <kgene@kernel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com>,
bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com,
Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] hwrng: iproc-rng200 - Set the quality value
Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 20:46:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3080190.aeNJFYEL58@positron.chronox.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dleftjftbtyubp.fsf%l.stelmach@samsung.com>
Am Donnerstag, 21. Mai 2020, 21:14:02 CEST schrieb Lukasz Stelmach:
Hi Lukasz,
> It was <2020-05-21 czw 13:00>, when Stefan Wahren wrote:
> > Hi Lukasz,
> >
> > Am 19.05.20 um 23:25 schrieb Łukasz Stelmach:
> >> The value was estimaded with ea_iid[1] using on 10485760 bytes read from
> >> the RNG via /dev/hwrng. The min-entropy value calculated using the most
> >> common value estimate (NIST SP 800-90P[2], section 6.3.1) was 7.964464.
> >
> > could you please mention in the commit the used hardware
> > implementation(s) of iproc-rng200 to get this quality?
> >
> > AFAIK there is still no public register description at least for the
> > bcm2711. So is it safe to assume that the suggested quality applies to
> > all possible configurations?
>
> I've learnt that there is a post-processing unit in RNG200 that tests
> the output of the noise generator and fills FIFO only with data that
> passes FIPS tests. Unlike simmilar unit in Exynos, it cannot be disabled
> or bypassed. Therefore, after Stephan Mueller's thorough explanations I
> am considering dropping this patch in v3.
If you would be more clear what that FIPS test is all about, we may be able to
identify whether it affects the entropy behavior or not. E.g. if it is the
SP800-90B health test following SP880-90B section 4.4, this does not affect
entropy and you could apply your calculation.
>
> However, I stil am still not 100% convinced that it is impossible to
> assign the quality a reasonable non-zero value in such case.
>
> > Thanks
> > Stefan
> >
> >> [1]
> >> https://protect2.fireeye.com/url?k=da4735b2-87d99b28-da46befd-0cc47a336f
> >> ae-e1c21080bc6ab1e4&q=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fusnistgov%2FSP800-90
> >> B_EntropyAssessment [2]
> >> https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-90b/final
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Łukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@samsung.com>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> drivers/char/hw_random/iproc-rng200.c | 1 +
> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/iproc-rng200.c
> >> b/drivers/char/hw_random/iproc-rng200.c index 32d9fe61a225..95669ece050f
> >> 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/iproc-rng200.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/iproc-rng200.c
> >> @@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ static int iproc_rng200_probe(struct platform_device
> >> *pdev)>>
> >> priv->rng.read = iproc_rng200_read,
> >> priv->rng.init = iproc_rng200_init,
> >> priv->rng.cleanup = iproc_rng200_cleanup,
> >>
> >> + priv->rng.quality = 1000,
> >>
> >> /* Register driver */
> >> ret = devm_hwrng_register(dev, &priv->rng);
Ciao
Stephan
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2020-05-14 19:07 ` [PATCH 0/2] Set the quality value for two HW RNGs Łukasz Stelmach
[not found] ` <CGME20200514190738eucas1p2695c0d8af064ee702209ca03696ef438@eucas1p2.samsung.com>
2020-05-14 19:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] hwrng: iproc-rng200 - Set the quality value Łukasz Stelmach
2020-05-14 20:20 ` Stephan Mueller
[not found] ` <CGME20200514221852eucas1p2bea169d0b4467b0ec9e195c6ac58a08a@eucas1p2.samsung.com>
2020-05-14 22:18 ` Lukasz Stelmach
2020-05-15 8:32 ` Stephan Mueller
[not found] ` <CGME20200515090647eucas1p21018edfd835730c9a68dcb186349ee74@eucas1p2.samsung.com>
2020-05-15 9:06 ` Lukasz Stelmach
[not found] ` <CGME20200515090158eucas1p1b653fc50f1ad4f0f6c92525ab3188d45@eucas1p1.samsung.com>
2020-05-15 9:01 ` Lukasz Stelmach
2020-05-15 9:10 ` Stephan Mueller
[not found] ` <CGME20200515110002eucas1p136759396d9b61f214d1f14856c009501@eucas1p1.samsung.com>
2020-05-15 10:59 ` Lukasz Stelmach
[not found] ` <CGME20200514190740eucas1p293129b2ef3ba706652a9327e55db9649@eucas1p2.samsung.com>
2020-05-14 19:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] hwrng: exynos " Łukasz Stelmach
2020-05-14 20:20 ` Stephan Mueller
[not found] ` <CGME20200519212617eucas1p1b6e7af0ecb894896b165601fafd6abe8@eucas1p1.samsung.com>
2020-05-19 21:25 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Set the quality value for two HW RNGs Łukasz Stelmach
[not found] ` <CGME20200519212619eucas1p22fa5d3db2521096dc4b79f6e53016d17@eucas1p2.samsung.com>
2020-05-19 21:25 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] hwrng: iproc-rng200 - Set the quality value Łukasz Stelmach
2020-05-20 6:23 ` Stephan Mueller
[not found] ` <CGME20200520091043eucas1p15ecae108007382a95b01e42241cc7a26@eucas1p1.samsung.com>
2020-05-20 9:10 ` Lukasz Stelmach
2020-05-20 9:18 ` Stephan Mueller
[not found] ` <CGME20200520104448eucas1p122e9a8ed84d5276a1b796e10ef5e1964@eucas1p1.samsung.com>
2020-05-20 10:44 ` Lukasz Stelmach
2020-05-20 11:53 ` Stephan Mueller
2020-05-20 12:00 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2020-05-20 12:11 ` Stephan Mueller
[not found] ` <CGME20200520143211eucas1p21bd93be5c62726aa715db05bb6e7119b@eucas1p2.samsung.com>
2020-05-20 14:31 ` Lukasz Stelmach
2020-05-20 8:18 ` Kamil Konieczny
2020-05-21 11:00 ` Stefan Wahren
[not found] ` <CGME20200521191415eucas1p2d112a86171b23dcf255e7da53a56f4f3@eucas1p2.samsung.com>
2020-05-21 19:14 ` Lukasz Stelmach
2020-05-23 18:46 ` Stephan Müller [this message]
[not found] ` <CGME20200519212621eucas1p13279db41d930b69e115972463c994a37@eucas1p1.samsung.com>
2020-05-19 21:25 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] hwrng: exynos " Łukasz Stelmach
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