From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: sun4i-ss: support the Security System PRNG
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:09:04 +0800
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 12:47:16AM +0530, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan wrote:
> Should there be a mandate that driver will be accepted only when it
> passes 'rngtest'. This will make sure that prng drivers won't get
> added in future.

You cannot use software to distinguish between a PRNG and an HRNG.
We can only rely on the veracity of the documentation.

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