Re: [EXT] [PATCH v8 3/6] KEYS: trusted: Introduce NXP DCP-backed trusted keys

From: Ahmad Fatoum
Date: Tue Apr 09 2024 - 13:28:41 EST


Hello Kshitiz,

On 09.04.24 12:54, Kshitiz Varshney wrote:
> Hi David,
>> + b->fmt_version = DCP_BLOB_VERSION;
>> + get_random_bytes(b->nonce, AES_KEYSIZE_128);
>> + get_random_bytes(b->blob_key, AES_KEYSIZE_128);
>
> We can use HWRNG instead of using kernel RNG. Please refer drivers/char/hw_random/imx-rngc.c

imx-rngc can be enabled and used to seed the kernel entropy pool. Adding
direct calls into imx-rngc here only introduces duplicated code at no extra
benefit.

Cheers,
Ahmad

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