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Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 14:14:59 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> CC: "Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>, Chris Peterson <cpeterso@...terso.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM Alan Cox wrote: >> In short, I agree with Alan's IRQF_SAMPLE_DUBIOUS, and know of Linux >> customers who also want the same. > > They should be made to read the Debian ssh security report - three times > and understand the same would apply to them if something did cause their > network packet arrivals to be observed or non-random > > Far better would be to get your CPU guys to put an RNG back into the > systems or on the CPU die ala VIA. Given I've even seen people using VIA > boxes as a random number feeder (streaming random numbers over SSL) there > is clearly a demand 8) The Treacherous Platform Module includes an RNG. Someone (hi Jesse?) should implement support for TPM_GetRandom. All the specs are public, and the hardware is already in users' hands. Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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