linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] avoid entropy starvation due to stack protection

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Date:	Fri, 21 Dec 2012 21:07:35 +0100
From:	Ondřej Bílka <neleai@...nam.cz>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jeff Liu <jeff.liu@...cle.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] avoid entropy starvation due to stack protection

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 07:30:20PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> 
> What I would do instead is use an AES-based cryptographic random
> number generator.  That is, at boot time, grab enough randomness to
> for an AES key, and then use that key to create a cryptographic random
> number generator by encrypting a counter with said AES key.  This is a
> cryptographic primitive which has been very carefully studied, and for
> architectures where you have a hardware support for AES (including
> ARMv8, Power 7, Sparc T4, as well as x86 processors with the AES-NI
> instructions), this will be much faster and require much less memory
> and CPU resources than replicating the /dev/urandom infrastructure.
> 
I was suggesting in another thread different approach.

Use AES-based cryptographic random number generator as replacement of 
/dev/urandom. Reseeding would get done by changing both aes key and
data.

This would with hardware support make /dev/urandom much faster than its now.
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