From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from orcrist.hmeau.com ([104.223.48.154]:48386 "EHLO deadmen.hmeau.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728220AbeKUS2s (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Nov 2018 13:28:48 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 15:55:02 +0800 From: Herbert Xu To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Cc: Ard Biesheuvel , Eric Biggers , Linux Crypto Mailing List , linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, LKML , Paul Crowley , Greg Kaiser , Samuel Neves , Tomer Ashur , Martin Willi Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] Exporting existing crypto API code through zinc Message-ID: <20181121075502.zch53qoc66lh6z22@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20181112185816.GA8663@gmail.com> <20181116060227.hwu4igi6bp26ddpi@gondor.apana.org.au> <20181117001718.GA175522@gmail.com> <20181119052451.qttzfgcm4hvbdc4u@gondor.apana.org.au> <20181120060217.t4nccaqpwnxkl4tx@gondor.apana.org.au> <20181120141850.zjmfwcari5kykk6y@gondor.apana.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 05:24:41PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 3:19 PM Herbert Xu wrote: > > Yes. In fact it's used for FIPS certification testing. > > Sure, nobody sane should be doing it. But when it comes to > > government certification... :) > > The kernel does not aim toward any FIPS certification, and we're not > going to start bloating our designs to fulfill this. It's never been a > goal. Maybe ask Ted to add a FIPS mode to random.c and see what > happens... When you start arguing "because FIPS!" as your > justification, you really hit a head scratcher. FIPS is not the issue. The issue is that we need to keep the existing user-space ABI. We can't break that. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au (Herbert Xu) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 15:55:02 +0800 Subject: [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] Exporting existing crypto API code through zinc In-Reply-To: References: <20181112185816.GA8663@gmail.com> <20181116060227.hwu4igi6bp26ddpi@gondor.apana.org.au> <20181117001718.GA175522@gmail.com> <20181119052451.qttzfgcm4hvbdc4u@gondor.apana.org.au> <20181120060217.t4nccaqpwnxkl4tx@gondor.apana.org.au> <20181120141850.zjmfwcari5kykk6y@gondor.apana.org.au> Message-ID: <20181121075502.zch53qoc66lh6z22@gondor.apana.org.au> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 05:24:41PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 3:19 PM Herbert Xu wrote: > > Yes. In fact it's used for FIPS certification testing. > > Sure, nobody sane should be doing it. But when it comes to > > government certification... :) > > The kernel does not aim toward any FIPS certification, and we're not > going to start bloating our designs to fulfill this. It's never been a > goal. Maybe ask Ted to add a FIPS mode to random.c and see what > happens... When you start arguing "because FIPS!" as your > justification, you really hit a head scratcher. FIPS is not the issue. The issue is that we need to keep the existing user-space ABI. We can't break that. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt