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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>,
	Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@google.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: Proposal for kernel self protection features
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 13:57:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13041.1447095477@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151109182832.GB20491@io.lakedaemon.net>

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On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:28:32 +0000, Jason Cooper said:
> I had a proposal a while back (can't find atm, sorry) to have the
> bootloader load the random-seed into RAM ...

It's *easy* to come up with an API to hand the kernel 64 or 128 bits of
random to kick things off.

The *hard* part is finding 64 or so bits of trustable random to hand to
the kernel....


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-09 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-06 22:55 [kernel-hardening] Proposal for kernel self protection features Emese Revfy
2015-11-06 23:30 ` [kernel-hardening] " Kees Cook
2015-11-07  0:25   ` Josh Triplett
2015-11-07  2:46     ` Greg KH
2015-11-07  4:16       ` Kees Cook
2015-11-07  5:42         ` Josh Triplett
2015-11-07 22:07           ` Emese Revfy
2015-11-08  8:21             ` Josh Triplett
2015-11-08 11:28               ` Emese Revfy
2015-11-08  9:27           ` Alyssa Milburn
2015-11-08 14:09             ` PaX Team
2015-11-07 21:58       ` Emese Revfy
2015-11-08  9:58         ` David Sterba
2015-11-08 17:15         ` Greg KH
2015-11-07 12:41     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-11-08 10:09       ` Mathias Krause
2015-11-07 21:42     ` Emese Revfy
2015-11-08  8:37       ` Josh Triplett
2015-11-07 21:34   ` Emese Revfy
2015-11-08  6:40     ` Kees Cook
2015-11-11 13:32     ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-11-12 12:22       ` PaX Team
2015-11-12 12:36         ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-11-13  2:08           ` Emese Revfy
2015-11-08 13:13   ` PaX Team
2015-11-09 18:07     ` Laura Abbott
2015-11-09 18:28       ` Jason Cooper
2015-11-09 18:33         ` Jason Cooper
2015-11-09 18:57         ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2015-11-09 19:02           ` Jason Cooper
2015-11-09 19:11             ` Theodore Tso
2015-11-09 20:06               ` Josh Triplett
2015-11-09 21:07                 ` Jason Cooper
2015-11-09 21:09               ` Jason Cooper
2015-11-09 21:13                 ` Matthew Garrett
2015-11-10 10:42                   ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2015-11-10 10:47                     ` Marcus Meissner
2015-11-10 11:24                       ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2015-11-09 18:32       ` Theodore Tso
2015-11-11  3:41       ` PaX Team
2015-11-09 21:52     ` Kees Cook
2015-11-09 23:09       ` PaX Team
2016-01-19 18:11 ` Kees Cook
2016-01-19 21:20   ` Emese Revfy
2016-01-19 23:08     ` Kees Cook

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