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| author | Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-09-06 17:51:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-09-06 17:51:52 +0000 |
| commit | c6c7b2912cd70d1c98219cd09bd564863b751d06 (patch) | |
| tree | 95fc4f3c6e930dc97a3bb9eb8e0d624d9cd9335d /sys/dev/rndtest/rndtest.c | |
| parent | 0fbf163e60fe783d01ba4358d503695a0286e79d (diff) | |
| download | src-c6c7b2912cd70d1c98219cd09bd564863b751d06.tar.gz src-c6c7b2912cd70d1c98219cd09bd564863b751d06.zip | |
Yarrow wants entropy estimations to be conservative; the usual idea
is that if you are certain you have N bits of entropy, you declare
N/2.
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/projects/random_number_generator/; revision=255319
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/dev/rndtest/rndtest.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys/dev/rndtest/rndtest.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys/dev/rndtest/rndtest.c b/sys/dev/rndtest/rndtest.c index 13ecdd6b0105..3c42972c36f7 100644 --- a/sys/dev/rndtest/rndtest.c +++ b/sys/dev/rndtest/rndtest.c @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ rndtest_harvest(struct rndtest_state *rsp, void *buf, u_int len) for (len /= sizeof (u_int32_t); len; len--) add_true_randomness(*p++); #else - random_harvest(buf, len, len*NBBY, 0, RANDOM_PURE); + random_harvest(buf, len, len*NBBY/2, 0, RANDOM_PURE); #endif } } |