On Sun 2016-06-19 17:58:41, Stephan Mueller wrote: > Hi Herbert, Ted, > > The following patch set provides a different approach to /dev/random which > I call Linux Random Number Generator (LRNG) to collect entropy within the Linux > kernel. The main improvements compared to the legacy /dev/random is to provide > sufficient entropy during boot time as well as in virtual environments and when > using SSDs. A secondary design goal is to limit the impact of the entropy > collection on massive parallel systems and also allow the use accelerated > cryptographic primitives. Also, all steps of the entropic data processing are > testable. Finally massive performance improvements are visible at /dev/urandom > and get_random_bytes. Dunno. It is very similar to existing rng, AFAICT. And at the very least, constants in existing RNG could be tuned to provide "entropy at the boot time". So IMO this should be re-done as tweaks to existing design, not as completely new RNG. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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
