[Cryptech Tech] Suggested changes to TRNG

Joachim Strömbergson joachim at secworks.se
Wed Sep 30 13:08:21 UTC 2015


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Aloha!

Fredrik Thulin wrote:
> I would hope the feedback from the CSPRNG back into the mixer runs
> all the time (at some rate).

Yes, at least when the entropy provider fifo is not full, the entropy
provider should start requesting new words from the csprng. This implies
that when the mixer is running we would pull data from the entropy
providers including the feedback based provider.

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 Joachim Strömbergson          Secworks AB          joachim at secworks.se
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