From: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
"Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com>,
Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
"Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@gmail.com>,
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] Rework random blocking
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 00:02:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200109230237.GA2992@roeckx.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200109224011.GD41242@mit.edu>
On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 05:40:11PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 11:02:30PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> >
> > One thing the NIST DRBGs have is prediction resistance, which is
> > done by reseeding. If you chain DRBGs, you tell your parent DRBG
> > that you want prediction resistance, so your parent will also
> > reseed. There currently is no way to tell the kernel to reseed.
>
> It would be simple enough to add a new flag, perhaps GRND_RESEED, to
> getrandom() which requests that the kernel reseed first. This would
> require sufficient amounts of entropy in the input pool to do the
> reseed; if there is not enough, the getrandom() call would block until
> there was enough. If GRND_NONBLOCK is supplied, then getrandom()
> would return EAGAIN if there wasn't sufficient entropy.
>
> Is this what you want?
I think some people might want to see it, but I think you
shouldn't add it.
> > I don't think we want that. As far as I know, the only reason for
> > using /dev/random is that /dev/urandom returns data before it
> > has sufficient entropy.
>
> Is there any objections to just using getrandom(2)?
It provides the interface we want, so no. But there are still
people who don't have it for various reasons. OpenSSL actually
does the system call itself if libc doesn't provider a wrapper for
it.
Kurt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-09 23:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-23 8:20 [PATCH v3 0/8] Rework random blocking Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-23 8:20 ` [PATCH v3 1/8] random: Don't wake crng_init_wait when crng_init == 1 Andy Lutomirski
2020-01-07 20:42 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-23 8:20 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] random: Add a urandom_read_nowait() for random APIs that don't warn Andy Lutomirski
2020-01-07 20:43 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-23 8:20 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] random: Add GRND_INSECURE to return best-effort non-cryptographic bytes Andy Lutomirski
2020-01-07 20:44 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-23 8:20 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] random: Ignore GRND_RANDOM in getentropy(2) Andy Lutomirski
2020-01-07 20:44 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-23 8:20 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] random: Make /dev/random be almost like /dev/urandom Andy Lutomirski
2020-01-07 21:02 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-23 8:20 ` [PATCH v3 6/8] random: Remove the blocking pool Andy Lutomirski
2020-01-07 21:03 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-23 8:20 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] random: Delete code to pull data into pools Andy Lutomirski
2020-01-07 21:03 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-23 8:20 ` [PATCH v3 8/8] random: Remove kernel.random.read_wakeup_threshold Andy Lutomirski
2020-01-07 21:04 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-26 9:29 ` [PATCH v3 0/8] Rework random blocking Stephan Müller
2019-12-26 10:03 ` Matthew Garrett
2019-12-26 11:40 ` Stephan Mueller
2019-12-26 11:12 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-26 12:03 ` Stephan Mueller
2019-12-26 12:46 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-27 9:55 ` Stephan Mueller
2019-12-26 14:04 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-26 23:29 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-27 10:29 ` Stephan Mueller
2019-12-27 13:04 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-27 21:22 ` Stephan Mueller
2019-12-27 22:08 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-28 2:06 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-29 14:49 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-29 15:08 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-28 7:01 ` Willy Tarreau
2020-01-09 22:02 ` Kurt Roeckx
2020-01-09 22:40 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-09 23:02 ` Kurt Roeckx [this message]
2020-01-10 7:53 ` Stephan Mueller
2020-01-10 0:30 ` Andy Lutomirski
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