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, URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_2 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 46FD2C433E6 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 16:01:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F18F221E2 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 16:01:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727990AbgLWQBp (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Dec 2020 11:01:45 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:58788 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726664AbgLWQBp (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Dec 2020 11:01:45 -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.221.27]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43A63ACF1; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 16:01:02 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 17:00:57 +0100 From: Petr Tesarik To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Cc: Torsten Duwe , Marcelo Henrique Cerri , "Theodore Y. Ts'o" , Linus Torvalds , Stephan =?UTF-8?B?TcO8bGxlcg==?= , Willy Tarreau , Linux Crypto Mailing List , Nicolai Stange , LKML , Arnd Bergmann , "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 , Neil Horman , Randy Dunlap , Julia Lawall , Dan Carpenter , And y Lavr , Eric Biggers , Ard Biesheuvel , simo@redhat.com Subject: Re: drivers/char/random.c needs a (new) maintainer Message-ID: <20201223170057.7c8fd710@ezekiel.suse.cz> In-Reply-To: References: <20201130151231.GA24862@lst.de> <20201130165339.GE5364@mit.edu> <20201218132519.kj3nz7swsx7vvlr5@valinor.lan> <20201223132851.55d19271@blackhole.lan> <20201223151014.57caf98b@ezekiel.suse.cz> Organization: SUSE Linux, s.r.o. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.8 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/Z+YdJ+mMHvgvuEAz.pJLK3V"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha256 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --Sig_/Z+YdJ+mMHvgvuEAz.pJLK3V Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 15:32:55 +0100 "Jason A. Donenfeld" wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 3:17 PM Petr Tesarik wrote: > > Upfront, let me admit that SUSE has a vested interest in a FIPS-certifi= able Linux kernel. =20 >=20 > Sorry, but just because you have a "vested interest", or a financial > interest, or because you want it does not suddenly make it a good > idea. The idea is to have good crypto, not to merely check some boxes I never suggested that this should serve as a supportive argument. I was ju= st trying to be honest about our motivations. I'm a bit sad that this discussion has quickly gone back to the choice of a= lgorithms and how they can be implemented. The real issue is that the RNG s= ubsystem has not developed as fast as it could. This had not been much of a= n issue as long as nobody was really interested in making any substantial c= hanges to that code, but it is more apparent now. Torsten believes it can b= e partly because of a maintainer who is too busy with other tasks, and he s= uggested we try to improve the situation by giving the RNG-related tasks to= someone else. I have not seen a clear answer to this suggestion, except Jason offering hi= s helping hand with Nicolai's cleanup patches, but nothing wrt Stephan's pa= tches. So, what is the plan? Petr Tesarik SUSE HW Enablement Team --Sig_/Z+YdJ+mMHvgvuEAz.pJLK3V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: Digitální podpis OpenPGP -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEHl2YIZkIo5VO2MxYqlA7ya4PR6cFAl/jabkACgkQqlA7ya4P R6cEBgf+PcUW8Z/pkOT7Dc2JOAZJ5iMJXmOEGKLvG42J6pZ5P7f00bw7KP8fCBty H56op4nW/kpSJ57neekDzz0w84iaQwtSNCgBvpaDWayIXurrEcPNzpQknLSR8NHX qVfwQO6lLmYRJPHMcVHdiwDAD50mBzVpNuCCfJjQNVeVJXT5Qcq0H0cvj9WtU7HP IxxnEZmC++fukffpZvW3E4cBntb6BPTT3nVtQwKHcUPLgSNsnojKhCPYIxse8Tzz vum5nMTlhNhxnHkcblfqnk0Cnp9eS2eM6OeYlNQ+4LK1gF0ZcBvjBNCeoLw/5Nbx /1rXFSsJ8UsuJ9Wh1e0paTx8iyeVpA== =Sd6I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/Z+YdJ+mMHvgvuEAz.pJLK3V--