Collecting entropy from device_attach() times.
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
des at des.no
Wed Oct 3 17:11:15 UTC 2012
RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> writes:
> Yes, getting a monotonically increasing value from binuptime() is
> simple, but the xor issue is secondary to the problem I was referring
> to when I quoted the arm code for get_cyclecount().
BTW, I just checked - the code you quoted does not exist / no longer
exists anywhere in the tree. The arm implementation of get_cyclecount()
uses the algorithm I suggested, with N = 56.
DES
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