2021-03-04 09:29:47

by Álvaro Fernández Rojas

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwrng: bcm2835: set quality to 1000

Hi Herbert,

> El 3 mar 2021, a las 10:20, Herbert Xu <[email protected]> escribió:
>
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 08:12:45PM +0100, Álvaro Fernández Rojas wrote:
>>
>> I ran rngtest and this is what I got:
>
> This is meaningless except for sources that have not been whitened.
>
> Your justification needs to be based on what the hardware does or
> is documented to do.

Ok, so I guess that we’re never setting that value to anything since there’s no public documentation about that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

>
> Thanks,
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> Email: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
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Best regards,
Álvaro.