On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 05:07:20PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > I do not see a specific requirement in SP800-90A about the quality of the > noise source.
Well it explicitly says that you cannot use a DRBG. In the worst case get_random_bytes is completely deterministic. > That said, I already developed an in-kernel version of /dev/random. I sent > the > patch to LKML some half year ago. If I understood Ted Tso right, there is no > general objection against adding that in-kernel interface. See [1] for the > thread. > > Furthermore, I already started working on updating the DRBG to use that in- > kernel /dev/random interface. > > Shall I pursue that work in earnest now? > > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/11/276 Yes I think we should do this. Thanks, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
