[Cryptech Tech] dev-bridge board

Joachim Strömbergson joachim at secworks.se
Tue Nov 17 07:28:57 UTC 2015


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Aloha!

Paul Selkirk wrote:
> Lots of cleanup and merging.

Cool work!


> 5) Harmonized the ctrl and status addresses across all cores
> (brought RNG cores into line). Note that the RNG cores still use
> status bit 0 for "valid", where the other cores use bit 1 (bit 0 is
> "ready"), but it's not a big deal. The ROSC entropy source has gotten
> a lot faster since the last time I looked at it (in March), and the
> entropy sources and csprng always report "valid", so it's hardly
> worth asking.

The status bit order can easily be changed, no problem.

When it comes to the entropy providers and esp the rng, one should
_always_ check status before reading. Even if its hardly worth asking.
This is something we should stress in the documentation.

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Med vänlig hälsning, Yours

Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning.
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 Joachim Strömbergson          Secworks AB          joachim at secworks.se
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