Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] efi: consume random seed provided by loader

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On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 2:40 AM Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For maximum simplicity, just concatenate the existing seed with the one
> obtained from EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL if both are available, and leave it to
> the core kernel code to mix it in and credit it appropriately. This way,
> we have no need for copies of the Blake2s library in the EFI stub and in
> the zboot decompressor.

FTR, while I think this is okay for the final stage that the kernel's
EFI loader does, it's less good for earlier stages. So, for example,
systemd-boot should still use the hashing scheme we discussed.



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