Re: [PATCH resend 0/2] random: Use DRBG sources

2014-04-14 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > [Resent because I forgot to email lkml. This also surreptitiously > fixes a silly typo on a patch description.] > > This is my attempt to come up with a workable way to use so-called > entropy sources like a TPM to feed /dev/urandom. > >

Re: [PATCH resend 0/2] random: Use DRBG sources

2014-04-14 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Torsten Duwe wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 08:49:58AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> [Resent because I forgot to email lkml. This also surreptitiously >> fixes a silly typo on a patch description.] >> >> This is my attempt to come up with a workable way to u

Re: [PATCH resend 0/2] random: Use DRBG sources

2014-04-14 Thread Torsten Duwe
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 08:49:58AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > [Resent because I forgot to email lkml. This also surreptitiously > fixes a silly typo on a patch description.] > > This is my attempt to come up with a workable way to use so-called > entropy sources like a TPM to feed /dev/uran

[PATCH resend 0/2] random: Use DRBG sources

2014-04-14 Thread Andy Lutomirski
[Resent because I forgot to email lkml. This also surreptitiously fixes a silly typo on a patch description.] This is my attempt to come up with a workable way to use so-called entropy sources like a TPM to feed /dev/urandom. Arguably we should be feeding the input pool as well, but if the /dev