Re: [PATCH 1/2] add infrastructure for ansi_cprng self-tests

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Mon May 04 2009 - 07:48:23 EST


On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 06:55:01AM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:28:13PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > Add some necessary infrastructure to make it possible to run
> > self-tests for ansi_cprng. The bits are likely very specific
> > to the ANSI X9.31 CPRNG in AES mode, and thus perhaps should
> > be named more specifically if/when we grow additional CPRNG
> > support...
> >
> > Successfully tested against the cryptodev-2.6 tree and a
> > Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x kernel with the follow-on
> > patch that adds the actual test vectors.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> Thanks Jarod!
> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Both patches applied. Thanks!

In future this should be moved to user-space where we can perform
more complicated tests such as entropy testing.

Of course we need to finish the user-space API first :)

Cheers,
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