On Thu, 6 February 2014 14:20:02 -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 03:36:17PM -0500, Jörn Engel wrote: > > Collects entropy from random behaviour all modern cpus exhibit. The > > scheduler and slab allocator are instrumented for this purpose. How > > much randomness can be gathered is clearly hardware-dependent and hard > > to estimate. Therefore the entropy estimate is zero, but random bits > > still get mixed into the pools. > > Have you seen this work from PaX Team? > > http://grsecurity.net/pipermail/grsecurity/2012-July/001093.html
Interesting. > See http://grsecurity.net/test/grsecurity-3.0-3.13.1-201402052349.patch > and search for PAX_LATENT_ENTROPY. Server gives me an error. Archive.org doesn't have a copy either, thanks to robots.txt. Can you send me a copy via mail? Jörn -- Functionality is an asset, but code is a liability. --Ted Dziuba -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/