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From: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com,
	wens@csie.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 13:57:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161205125738.GA13525@Red> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161205123705.GA10732@gondor.apana.org.au>

On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 08:37:05PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 11:48:42AM +0100, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> > From: LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com>
> > 
> > The Security System have a PRNG.
> > This patch add support for it as an hwrng.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com>
> 
> Please don't add PRNGs to hwrng.  If we have existing PRNGs in
> there please let me know so that we can remove them.
> 

So how to expose PRNG to user space ? or more generally how to "use" a PRNG ?

I found hisi-rng, crypto4xx_ and exynos-rng which seems to be PRNG used as hwrng.

Regards

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-05 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-05 10:48 [PATCH v2] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG Corentin Labbe
2016-12-05 12:37 ` Herbert Xu
2016-12-05 12:57   ` Corentin Labbe [this message]
2016-12-07 12:09     ` Herbert Xu
2016-12-07 12:51       ` Corentin Labbe
2016-12-08  9:06         ` Herbert Xu
2016-12-08  9:24           ` Corentin Labbe
2016-12-08 11:01             ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
2016-12-13 14:10           ` Corentin Labbe
2016-12-13 15:23             ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
2016-12-13 15:33               ` Corentin Labbe
2016-12-14  5:05             ` Herbert Xu
2016-12-14  6:03               ` Corentin Labbe
2016-12-14 19:17               ` PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
2016-12-15  6:09                 ` Herbert Xu

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