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From: Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@gmail.com>
To: "David Jaša" <djasa@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Jason Cooper <cryptography@lakedaemon.net>,
	John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 11:26:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACXcFm=ysn15Lh9Exeo8nKEAuBoZ7pB3eDesL_P_Ne3Kaxcunw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1466171773.20087.66.camel@redhat.com>

David Jaša <djasa@redhat.com> wrote:

>
> BTW when looking at an old BSI's issue with Linux urandom that Jarod
> Wilson tried to solve with this series:
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-crypto/msg06113.html
> I was thinking:
> 1) wouldn't it help for large urandom consumers if kernel created a DRBG
> instance for each of them? It would likely enhance performance and solve
> BSI's concern of predicting what numbers could other urandom consumers
> obtain at cost of memory footprint
> and then, after reading paper associated with this series:
> 2) did you evaluate use of intermediate DRBG fed by primary generator to
> instantiate per-node DRBG's? It would allow initialization of all
> secondary DRBGs right after primary generator initialization.

Theodore Ts'o, the random maintainer, already has a patch that
seems to deal with this issue. He has posted more than one
version & I'm not sure this is the best or latest, but ...
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/30/22

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-17 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-31 18:37 [PATCH v4 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach Stephan Mueller
2016-05-31 18:37 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] crypto: DRBG - externalize DRBG functions for LRNG Stephan Mueller
2016-05-31 18:38 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] random: conditionally compile code depending on LRNG Stephan Mueller
2016-05-31 18:39 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] crypto: Linux Random Number Generator Stephan Mueller
2016-05-31 18:39 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] crypto: LRNG - enable compile Stephan Mueller
2016-05-31 18:39 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] random: add interrupt callback to VMBus IRQ handler Stephan Mueller
2016-05-31 22:34 ` [PATCH v4 0/5] /dev/random - a new approach George Spelvin
2016-06-15 16:17 ` David Jaša
2016-06-15 16:58   ` Stephan Mueller
2016-06-17 13:56     ` David Jaša
2016-06-17 15:26       ` Sandy Harris [this message]
2016-06-18  8:22         ` Stephan Mueller
2016-06-18  8:21       ` Stephan Mueller
2016-06-18 14:44       ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-06-18 16:31         ` Stephan Mueller
2016-06-20 17:07           ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-06-20 18:32             ` Stephan Mueller
2016-06-21 13:05               ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-06-21 13:19                 ` Tomas Mraz
2016-06-21 17:18                   ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-06-21 17:23                     ` Stephan Mueller
2016-06-21 17:54                       ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-06-21 18:05                         ` Stephan Mueller
2016-06-21 13:20                 ` Stephan Mueller
2016-06-21 17:51                   ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-06-21 18:04                     ` Stephan Mueller
2016-06-21 19:31                       ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-06-22  5:16                         ` Stephan Mueller
2016-06-22 12:54                           ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-06-22 13:25                             ` Stephan Mueller
2016-06-21 13:42                 ` Pavel Machek
2016-06-21 17:17                   ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-06-21 12:25         ` David Jaša

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