From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: "Safford, David (GE Global Research, US)" <david.safford@ge.com>,
Ken Goldman <kgold@linux.ibm.com>,
Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>,
"linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org"
<linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org>,
"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
"open list:ASYMMETRIC KEYS" <keyrings@vger.kernel.org>,
"open list:CRYPTO API" <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KEYS: asym_tpm: Switch to get_random_bytes()
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 19:25:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191016162543.GB6279@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1571229252.3477.7.camel@HansenPartnership.com>
On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 08:34:12AM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> reversible ciphers are generally frowned upon in random number
> generation, that's why the krng uses chacha20. In general I think we
> shouldn't try to code our own mixing and instead should get the krng to
> do it for us using whatever the algorithm du jour that the crypto guys
> have blessed is. That's why I proposed adding the TPM output to the
> krng as entropy input and then taking the output of the krng.
It is already registered as hwrng. What else? Was the issue that
it is only used as seed when the rng is init'd first? I haven't
at this point gone to the internals of krng.
/Jarkko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-16 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-26 17:16 [PATCH] KEYS: asym_tpm: Switch to get_random_bytes() Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-09-28 18:05 ` Jerry Snitselaar
2019-10-01 20:54 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-02 14:00 ` Mimi Zohar
2019-10-03 11:41 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-03 11:43 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-03 13:02 ` Mimi Zohar
2019-10-03 17:58 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-03 18:53 ` Mimi Zohar
2019-10-03 21:51 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-03 21:57 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-03 22:08 ` Mimi Zohar
2019-10-03 23:59 ` James Bottomley
2019-10-04 18:22 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-04 18:24 ` James Bottomley
2019-10-04 18:33 ` Jerry Snitselaar
2019-10-04 18:42 ` James Bottomley
2019-10-04 20:07 ` Jerry Snitselaar
2019-10-04 20:11 ` Jerry Snitselaar
2019-10-04 22:11 ` James Bottomley
2019-10-06 0:38 ` Mimi Zohar
2019-10-06 23:52 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-07 18:08 ` Mimi Zohar
2019-10-04 18:20 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-03 22:10 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-04 13:26 ` Safford, David (GE Global Research, US)
2019-10-04 18:27 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-04 18:30 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-04 19:56 ` Safford, David (GE Global Research, US)
2019-10-07 0:05 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-07 22:13 ` Ken Goldman
2019-10-08 23:49 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-08 23:53 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-09 7:10 ` Pascal Van Leeuwen
2019-10-09 7:33 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-09 7:41 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-09 8:09 ` Pascal Van Leeuwen
2019-10-14 19:11 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-09 8:02 ` Pascal Van Leeuwen
2019-10-09 12:11 ` Safford, David (GE Global Research, US)
2019-10-14 19:00 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-14 19:29 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-14 19:29 ` James Bottomley
2019-10-16 11:00 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-16 12:34 ` James Bottomley
2019-10-16 16:25 ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2019-10-16 19:10 ` James Bottomley
2019-10-17 12:52 ` Sumit Garg
2019-10-17 12:58 ` James Bottomley
2019-10-17 18:04 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-21 11:39 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-29 8:42 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-29 14:58 ` James Bottomley
2019-10-31 21:03 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-18 7:32 ` Janne Karhunen
2019-10-03 18:02 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-03 18:15 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2019-10-07 10:33 ` Janne Karhunen
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