Am Donnerstag, 16. April 2015, 23:26:18 schrieb Herbert Xu: Hi Herbert, >On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 05:07:20PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: >> I do not see a specific requirement in SP800-90A about the quality of the >> noise source. > >Well it explicitly says that you cannot use a DRBG. In the worst >case get_random_bytes is completely deterministic. > >> That said, I already developed an in-kernel version of /dev/random. I sent >> the patch to LKML some half year ago. If I understood Ted Tso right, there >> is no general objection against adding that in-kernel interface. See [1] >> for the thread. >> >> Furthermore, I already started working on updating the DRBG to use that in- >> kernel /dev/random interface. >> >> Shall I pursue that work in earnest now? >> >> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/11/276 > >Yes I think we should do this. Ok, I will work on that after I added the global lock to the DRBG. > >Thanks, Ciao Stephan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
