From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "George Spelvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 25/25] crypto: ansi_cprng - If non-deterministic, don't buffer old output Date: 7 Dec 2014 17:49:59 -0500 Message-ID: <20141207224959.25453.qmail@ns.horizon.com> References: <6f29805d8bbde1af112d48201d5fde9a7776027f.1417951990.git.linux@horizon.com> Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, smueller@chronox.de To: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux@horizon.com, nhorman@tuxdriver.com Return-path: Received: from ns.horizon.com ([71.41.210.147]:57173 "HELO ns.horizon.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753465AbaLGWuB (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Dec 2014 17:50:01 -0500 In-Reply-To: <6f29805d8bbde1af112d48201d5fde9a7776027f.1417951990.git.linux@horizon.com> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: By the way, this patch includes a bug due to a last minute "oh, I can make that more efficient!" which I realized after a night's sleep. (The v1 patch worked, FWIW.) Anyway, it's an RFC; I'm not even sure if I want this personally, but it's a bit of extra paranoia to always genreate fresh seed per read.