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The output n bits can receive more than n bits of min entropy, of course, but the fixed output of the conditioning function can only asymptotically approach the output size bits of min entropy, not attain that bound. Random maps will tend to have output collisions, which reduces the creditable output entropy (that is what SP 800-90B Section 3.1.5.1.2 attempts to bound). The value "64" is justified in Appendix A.4 of the current 90C draft, and aligns with NIST's in "epsilon" definition in this document, which is that a string can be considered "full entropy" if you can bound the min entropy in each bit of output to at least 1-epsilon, where epsilon is required to be <= 2^(-32). Note, this patch causes the Jitter RNG to cut its performance in half in FIPS mode because the conditioning function of the LFSR produces 64 bits of entropy in one block. The oversampling requires that additionally 64 bits of entropy are sampled from the noise source. If the conditioner is changed, such as using SHA-256, the impact of the oversampling is only one fourth, because for the 256 bit block of the conditioner, only 64 additional bits from the noise source must be sampled. This patch is derived from the user space jitterentropy-library. Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> Reviewed-by: Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.