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From: Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@gmail.com>
To: "Theodore Ts\\'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/7] Two new CONFIG options for the random(4) driver
Date: Sat,  7 Nov 2015 09:30:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1446906642-19372-2-git-send-email-sandyinchina@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1446906642-19372-1-git-send-email-sandyinchina@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/char/Kconfig | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig
index a043107..0e0e6b5 100644
--- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig
@@ -603,5 +603,28 @@ config TILE_SROM
 
 source "drivers/char/xillybus/Kconfig"
 
+
+config RANDOM_INIT
+	bool "Initialise random(4) pools with random data (NEW)"
+	default n
+	help
+	  Use /dev/urandom on development machine to set
+	  up pools, different for each compile.
+	  Compiles scripts/gen_random_init.c
+	  Creates include/generated/random_init.h
+
+config RANDOM_GCM
+	bool "modified random(4) driver (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+	depends on RANDOM_INIT
+	default n
+	help
+	  New version using the hash from AES-GCM.
+	  Main goal decoupling so that heavy use of
+	  /dev/urandom cannot deplete entropy for
+	  /dev/random.
+	  Should not be used in production before much
+	  more analysis and testing is done.
+	  When in doubt, say "N".
+
 endmenu
 
-- 
2.5.0


  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-07 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-07 14:30 [PATCH 1/7] A couple of generated files Sandy Harris
2015-11-07 14:30 ` Sandy Harris [this message]
2015-11-07 14:30 ` [PATCH 3/7] Initialise pools randomly if CONFIG_RANDOM_INIT=y Sandy Harris
2015-11-07 16:54   ` Jason Cooper
2015-11-07 17:08   ` kbuild test robot
2015-11-07 14:30 ` [PATCH 4/7] Different version of driver using hash from AES-GCM Compiled if CONFIG_RANDOM_GCM=y Sandy Harris
2015-11-07 14:30 ` [PATCH 5/7] Conditionals for CONFIG_RANDOM_INIT and CONFIG_RANDOM_GCM Sandy Harris
2015-11-07 17:11   ` kbuild test robot
2015-11-07 14:30 ` [PATCH 6/7] Produces generated/random_init.h for random driver Sandy Harris
2015-11-07 14:30 ` [PATCH 7/7] Create generated/random_init.h, used by " Sandy Harris
2015-11-07 16:00   ` kbuild test robot
2015-11-07 21:18   ` kbuild test robot
2015-11-08 11:14   ` kbuild test robot
2015-11-07 16:53 ` [PATCH 1/7] A couple of generated files Jason Cooper
2015-11-07 18:50   ` Sandy Harris
2016-03-02  3:15     ` Sandy Harris
2015-11-07 17:01 ` Jason Cooper
2015-11-07 17:50   ` Sandy Harris

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