From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>,
Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jean-Philippe Aumasson <jeanphilippe.aumasson@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v7 3/6] random: use SipHash in place of MD5
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 10:58:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161222155853.beqowf2qfg7igf23@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHmME9o=yLOLr2w3xYj2up-UW0tXtv=0A5ffiTiVCCHkv6Twxg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 07:03:29AM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> I find this compelling. We'll have one csprng for both
> get_random_int/long and for /dev/urandom, and we'll be able to update
> that silly warning on the comment of get_random_int/long to read
> "gives output of either rdrand quality or of /dev/urandom quality",
> which makes it more useful for other things. It introduces less error
> prone code, and it lets the RNG analysis be spent on just one RNG, not
> two.
>
> So, with your blessing, I'm going to move ahead with implementing a
> pretty version of this for v8.
Can we do this as a separate series, please? At this point, it's a
completely separate change from a logical perspective, and we can take
in the change through the random.git tree.
Changes that touch files that are normally changed in several
different git trees leads to the potential for merge conflicts during
the linux-next integration and merge window processes. Which is why
it's generally best to try to isolate changes as much as possible.
Cheers,
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-22 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-15 20:29 [PATCH v5 0/4] The SipHash Patchset Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-15 20:30 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] siphash: add cryptographically secure PRF Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-15 22:42 ` George Spelvin
2016-12-16 2:14 ` kbuild test robot
2016-12-17 14:55 ` Jeffrey Walton
2016-12-19 17:08 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-15 20:30 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] siphash: add Nu{32,64} helpers Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-16 10:39 ` David Laight
2016-12-16 15:44 ` George Spelvin
2016-12-15 20:30 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] secure_seq: use SipHash in place of MD5 Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-16 9:59 ` David Laight
2016-12-16 15:57 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-15 20:30 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] random: " Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-16 3:03 ` [PATCH v6 0/5] The SipHash Patchset Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-16 3:03 ` [PATCH v6 1/5] siphash: add cryptographically secure PRF Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-16 3:03 ` [PATCH v6 2/5] secure_seq: use SipHash in place of MD5 Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-16 3:03 ` [PATCH v6 3/5] random: " Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-16 21:31 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-12-16 3:03 ` [PATCH v6 4/5] md5: remove from lib and only live in crypto Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-16 3:03 ` [PATCH v6 5/5] syncookies: use SipHash in place of SHA1 Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-21 23:02 ` [PATCH v7 0/6] The SipHash Patchset Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-21 23:02 ` [PATCH v7 1/6] siphash: add cryptographically secure PRF Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-22 1:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-12-21 23:02 ` [PATCH v7 2/6] secure_seq: use SipHash in place of MD5 Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-21 23:02 ` [PATCH v7 3/6] random: " Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-21 23:13 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-21 23:42 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-12-22 2:07 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-22 2:09 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-12-22 2:49 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-22 3:12 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-22 5:41 ` [kernel-hardening] " Theodore Ts'o
2016-12-22 6:03 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-22 15:58 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2016-12-22 16:16 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-22 16:30 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-12-22 16:36 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-22 12:47 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-22 13:10 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-22 15:05 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-22 15:12 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-22 15:29 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-22 15:33 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-22 15:41 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-22 15:51 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-22 15:53 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-22 15:54 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-12-22 18:08 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-12-22 18:13 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-22 19:50 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-12-22 2:31 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-21 23:02 ` [PATCH v7 4/6] md5: remove from lib and only live in crypto Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-21 23:02 ` [PATCH v7 5/6] syncookies: use SipHash in place of SHA1 Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-21 23:02 ` [PATCH v7 6/6] siphash: implement HalfSipHash1-3 for hash tables Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-22 0:46 ` Andi Kleen
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