From: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] crypto: RSA padding transform
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2015 17:10:47 +0200
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Am Montag, 7. September 2015, 16:42:42 schrieb Andrzej Zaborowski:

Hi Andrzej,
>
>Specifically I use 1 + prandom_u32_max(255) which should give me
>numbers > 0 although it can't be perfectly uniform.

Oh, now I see. Thanks for the clarification. And yes, per definition the 
values cannot be uniform (not just because of the +1 but also since prandom is 
not a cryptographic RNG).


Ciao
Stephan