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Bryan O'Donoghue authored
The signal-to-noise-ratio SNR is returned by the wcn36xx firmware for each received frame. SNR represents all of the unwanted interference signal after filtering out the fundamental frequency and harmonics of the frequency. Noise can come from various electromagnetic sources, from temperature affecting the performance hardware components or quantization effects converting from analog to digital domains. The SNR value returned by the WiFi firmware then is a good source of entropy. Other WiFi drivers offer up the noise component of the FFT as an entropy source for the random pool e.g. commit 2aa56cca ("ath9k: Mix the received FFT bins to the random pool") I attended Jason's talk on sources of randomness at Plumbers and it occurred to me that SNR is a reasonable candidate to add. Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@quicinc.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220915004117.1562703-2-bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org
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