Re: [PATCH net-next] [RESEND] wireguard: disable in FIPS mode

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On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 09:06:52AM +0800, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> > Also, couldn't you just consider WireGuard to be outside your FIPS module
> > boundary, which would remove it from the scope of the certification?
> > 
> > And how do you handle all the other places in the kernel that use ChaCha20 and
> > SipHash?  For example, drivers/char/random.c?
> 
> Good question, I will check it and reply to you later.

I just read the code. The drivers/char/random.c do has some fips specific
parts(seems not related to crypto). After commit e192be9d9a30 ("random: replace
non-blocking pool with a Chacha20-based CRNG") we moved part of chacha code to
lib/chacha20.c and make that code out of control.

Thanks
Hangbin



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