Re: [PATCH 3/4] getentropy: Add test.

2017-11-10 Thread Gedare Bloom
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Christian Mauderer wrote: > - Ursprüngliche Mail - >> Von: "Gedare Bloom" >> An: "Christian Mauderer" >> CC: devel@rtems.org >> Gesendet: Freitag, 10. November 2017 17:14:38 >> Betreff: Re: [PATCH 3/4

Re: [PATCH 3/4] getentropy: Add test.

2017-11-10 Thread Christian Mauderer
- Ursprüngliche Mail - > Von: "Gedare Bloom" > An: "Christian Mauderer" > CC: devel@rtems.org > Gesendet: Freitag, 10. November 2017 17:14:38 > Betreff: Re: [PATCH 3/4] getentropy: Add test. > This is a necessary test, but I don't think it is t

Re: [PATCH 3/4] getentropy: Add test.

2017-11-10 Thread Gedare Bloom
This is a necessary test, but I don't think it is that sufficient to give a good idea of the quality of the entropy returned. It would be better instead to calculate an actual entropy (information theoretic) measure over multiple calls to getentropy(). The program test logic could be something like

[PATCH 3/4] getentropy: Add test.

2017-11-09 Thread Christian Mauderer
From: Christian Mauderer --- testsuites/libtests/Makefile.am | 1 + testsuites/libtests/configure.ac | 1 + testsuites/libtests/random01/Makefile.am | 19 ++ testsuites/libtests/random01/init.c | 105 ++ testsuites/libtests/random01/