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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>,
	Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Cc: "Mickaël Salaün" <mic@digikod.net>,
	"David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Herbert Xu" <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	"John Haxby" <john.haxby@oracle.com>,
	"Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	"Simo Sorce" <simo@redhat.com>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Mickaël Salaün" <mic@linux.microsoft.com>,
	tytso@mit.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] crypto: Make the DRBG compliant with NIST SP800-90A rev1
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 13:49:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <98006AFB-C40E-46F7-BE88-D8E66653B71B@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a4e1c071-32af-9650-e6fd-8943b3a79bb0@linux.microsoft.com>

This one really does keep coming back like yesterday's herring, doesn't it...

On June 23, 2021 10:00:29 AM PDT, James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 23 Jun 2021, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>
>> 
>> > These changes replace the use of the Linux RNG with the Jitter RNG,
>> > which is NIST SP800-90B compliant, to get a proper entropy input
>and a
>> > nonce as defined by FIPS.
>> 
>> Can you please help me understand what is missing in the current code
>which
>> seemingly already has achieved this goal?
>
>The advice we have is that if an attacker knows the internal state of
>the 
>CPU, then the output of the Jitter RNG can be predicted.

-- 
Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-23 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-23 12:07 [PATCH v1] crypto: Make the DRBG compliant with NIST SP800-90A rev1 Mickaël Salaün
2021-06-23 14:22 ` Stephan Mueller
2021-06-23 17:00   ` James Morris
2021-06-23 17:27     ` Stephan Müller
2021-06-23 18:04       ` Mickaël Salaün
2021-06-23 19:10         ` Stephan Mueller
2021-06-24 10:13           ` Mickaël Salaün
2021-06-24 11:50             ` Stephan Mueller
2021-06-25 11:09               ` Mickaël Salaün
2021-06-25 13:50                 ` Stephan Müller
2021-06-25 14:53                   ` Mickaël Salaün
2021-06-23 20:49     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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