Re: [PATCH v10 0/5] Seeding DRBG with more entropy

[Herbert Xu]

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 03:08:08PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as of now, the DRBG is only seeded from get_random_bytes. In various
> circumstances, the nonblocking_pool behind get_random_bytes may not be fully
> seeded from hardware events at the time the DRBG requires to be seeded.
> Based on the discussion in [1], the DRBG seeding is updated such that it
> does not completely rely on get_random_bytes any more.

All applied to cryptodev.  Thanks a lot!
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