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=-1.1 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS 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 727E3C3F68F for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2019 02:07:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48125207E0 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2019 02:07:15 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1577498835; bh=U/nAnG2hJ81tt6C4DRheFtDEpu00ZrtqXVwbAsZZP9M=; h=References:In-Reply-To:From:Date:Subject:To:Cc:List-ID:From; b=vhUj3SHi0tANpgqdebis05pO8fx/G7xTFu4BJ161p1gsgCkVD3BZ00T+vnRlAMA78 d4YVLH3hZWiE2BxtOMTZyR5ZGTWngx8XarnZOUnt+4mvVtsJY+ekvEFPU/SZIXjxf/ rk8QV854lARn6SrlNyH9ZvmzV1JHAZYlRFfu9Zq0= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726371AbfL1CHO (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Dec 2019 21:07:14 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:41374 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726044AbfL1CHO (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Dec 2019 21:07:14 -0500 Received: from mail-wm1-f50.google.com (mail-wm1-f50.google.com [209.85.128.50]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 93DF422522 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2019 02:07:13 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1577498833; bh=U/nAnG2hJ81tt6C4DRheFtDEpu00ZrtqXVwbAsZZP9M=; h=References:In-Reply-To:From:Date:Subject:To:Cc:From; b=1c6ghWj9lBinB1rJ06SZnLd56bVBBBe9bPlVBfLZzT9lOViU8sgKn5WWYaCABTVCU mV7JlPuz2lmd9hnM4J1CtbAGqIFv9gcLmZftS+0Wi0uiScZE3GN7E8NGM/yYR0L1wd RGzetWX/uhSMgeHn4e0hXigTRJ7NGS4dE6kAfqv4= Received: by mail-wm1-f50.google.com with SMTP id d139so7856079wmd.0 for ; Fri, 27 Dec 2019 18:07:13 -0800 (PST) X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAU0Y5Js6+lNn+FpNLzytEF+5oKEnbCiIvTq4aAipIkpgnWLFWTt vK/oTr+/B+KMuf0FhNW8/kooTMZlgN/Ags5n6Jiaug== X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqxn3Rv02S1te2llnFcs0CQZm6YywFRNddMkZ5rLIdJvih5IqiGw4PeCUC2MXu651WWfDw7Wdf6pIKHDbHZ3lio= X-Received: by 2002:a7b:cbc9:: with SMTP id n9mr21666330wmi.89.1577498831945; Fri, 27 Dec 2019 18:07:11 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20191226140423.GB3158@mit.edu> <4048434.Q8HajmOrkZ@tauon.chronox.de> <20191227130436.GC70060@mit.edu> <15817620.rmTN4T87Wr@tauon.chronox.de> <20191227220857.GD70060@mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20191227220857.GD70060@mit.edu> From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 18:06:56 -0800 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] Rework random blocking To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" Cc: Stephan Mueller , Andy Lutomirski , LKML , Linux API , Kees Cook , "Jason A. Donenfeld" , "Ahmed S. Darwish" , Lennart Poettering , "Eric W. Biederman" , "Alexander E. Patrakov" , Michael Kerrisk , Willy Tarreau , Matthew Garrett , Ext4 Developers List , linux-man Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-man-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 2:09 PM Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > So if it's just for cryptographers, then let it all be done in > userspace, and let's not make it easy for GPG, OpenSSL, etc., to all > say, "We want TrueRandom(tm); we won't settle for less". We can talk > about how do we provide the interfaces so that those cryptographers > can get the information they need so they can get access to the raw > noise sources, separated out and named, and with possibly some way > that the noise source can authenticate itself to the Cryptographer's > userspace library/application. > > But all of this should probably not be in drivers/char/random.c, and > we probably need to figure out a better kernel to userspace interface > than what we have with /dev/hwrng. I'm thinking of having a real class device and chardev for each hwrng device. Authentication is entirely in userspace: whatever user code is involved can look at the sysfs hierarchy and decide to what extent it trusts a given source. This could be done based on bus topology or based on anything else. The kernel could also separately expose various noise sources, and the user code can do whatever it wants with them. But these should be explicitly unconditioned, un-entropy-extracted sources -- user code can run its favorite algorithm to extract something it believes to be useful. The only conceptually tricky bit is keeping user code like this from interfering with the in-kernel RNG. --Andy