Re: [PATCH v6 1/5] random: Blocking API for accessing nonblocking_pool

Am Dienstag, 19. Mai 2015, 15:22:27 schrieb Herbert Xu: Hi Herbert, > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 07:58:25AM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > Herbert, do you have any ideas? > > On the /dev/random side, > > 1) Add a struct module argument in addition to func/data. > 2) Grab module ref count when f

Re: [PATCH] random: add random_initialized command line param

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Herbert Xu wrote: > Stephan Mueller wrote: >> >> I hear more and more discussions about recommendations to use AES 256 and not >> AES 128. Or perhaps other ciphers with 256-bit keys. Salsa, ChaCha and several of the Caesar candidates support those. >> These kin

Re: [PATCH v6 1/5] random: Blocking API for accessing nonblocking_pool

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 04:36:58PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: > diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c > index 9cd6968..6f71354 100644 > --- a/drivers/char/random.c > +++ b/drivers/char/random.c > @@ -1245,6 +1245,20 @@ void get_random_bytes(void *buf, int nbytes) > EXPORT_S