From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17DC7C43457 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 17:26:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE7CD20874 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 17:26:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2391429AbgJPR00 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:26:26 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:36538 "EHLO verein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2391280AbgJPR00 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:26:26 -0400 Received: by verein.lst.de (Postfix, from userid 2005) id 68CC068BEB; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 19:26:19 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 19:26:19 +0200 From: Torsten Duwe To: Stephan Mueller Cc: Willy Tarreau , "Theodore Y. Ts'o" , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Nicolai Stange , LKML , Arnd Bergmann , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Eric W. Biederman" , "Alexander E. Patrakov" , "Ahmed S. Darwish" , Matthew Garrett , Vito Caputo , Andreas Dilger , Jan Kara , Ray Strode , William Jon McCann , zhangjs , Andy Lutomirski , Florian Weimer , Lennart Poettering , Peter Matthias , Marcelo Henrique Cerri , Neil Horman , Randy Dunlap , Julia Lawall , Dan Carpenter , Andy Lavr , Eric Biggers , "Jason A. Donenfeld" , Petr Tesarik Subject: Re: [DISCUSSION PATCH 00/41] random: possible ways towards NIST SP800-90B compliance Message-ID: <20201016172619.GA18410@lst.de> References: <20200921075857.4424-1-nstange@suse.de> <20201002123836.GA14807@lst.de> <20201002131555.GD3783@1wt.eu> <2961243.vtBmWVcJkq@tauon.chronox.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2961243.vtBmWVcJkq@tauon.chronox.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 03:56:28PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: > Am Freitag, 2. Oktober 2020, 15:15:55 CEST schrieb Willy Tarreau: > > Hi Willy, > > > > And this is all ??? > > > > Possibly a lot of people got used to seeing the numerous versions > > and are less attentive to new series, it's possible that your message > > will wake everyone up. > > I think that points to my patch series. My patch series which provide a > complete separate, API and ABI compliant drop in replacement of /dev/random, > nobody from the gatekeepers cared to even answer. It would not touch the > existing code. > > After waiting some time without changing the code (e.g. after Andi Lutomirski > commented), I got no answer at all from the gatekeepers, not even any > indication in what direction I should move if something was not desired in the > patch series. > > Thus I continued adding the features that I think are necessary and for which > I received comments from mathematicians. What else should I do? > > With the patch set v35 of my patch series, I see all my goals finally > achieved at I expect the code to be stable from here on. The last one was the > hardest: to get rid of all non-cryptographic conditioning operations and yet > retain performance en par or even superior to the existing /dev/random > implementation. Would you mind to resend it here, for a comparison? Torsten