Am Samstag, 18. April 2015, 09:27:44 schrieb Herbert Xu: Hi Herbert, > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 03:22:56PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > > The only reason someone would use this is to comply with the > > > standard and this is what the standard requires so I don't see > > > how we can do anything else. > > > > I do not see a definite quality requirement of the seed source in > > SP800-90A. > Section 8.6.5 "Source of Entropy Input" explicitly requires this. > > TBH whether /dev/random even satisfies 8.6.5 is also debatable. > But it agrees with the specification at least in spirit. Ok, if I re-read that one and consider our discussion, I would agree. But it was handled differently up to now. In any case, I am almost ready with the patch for an async seeding. Though, I want to give it a thorough testing. -- 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
