Hi Stephan, NIST SP 800-22-rev1a and NIST SP 800-90B are used together to evaluate the amount of min entropy the source provides, and not to decide if the source has passed the tests or failed. See
https://github.com/usnistgov/SP800-90B_EntropyAssessment The goal is often to make sure the input entropy is more than the entropy we expect from the output. Thanks, Miaoqing -----Original Message----- From: Stephan Mueller [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2016 2:52 PM To: Pan, Miaoqing <[email protected]> Cc: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>; Matt Mackall <[email protected]>; [email protected]; Valo, Kalle <[email protected]>; [email protected]; ath9k-devel <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected]; Sepehrdad, Pouyan <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ath9k: disable RNG by default Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2016, 06:46:31 CEST schrieb Pan, Miaoqing: Hi Miaoqing, > Hi Stephan, > > Would you please provide a recent NIST document which asks the entropy > source to pass the NIST randomness tests ? See FIPS 140-2 IG 7.15 which explicitly references SP800-22. Ciao Stephan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
