linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH,RFC] random: collect cpu randomness

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Date:	Thu, 6 Feb 2014 14:20:02 -0800
From:	Kees Cook <kees@...flux.net>
To:	Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>
Cc:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linux Kernel Developers List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	macro@...ux-mips.org, ralf@...ux-mips.org, dave.taht@...il.com,
	blogic@...nwrt.org, andrewmcgr@...il.com, smueller@...onox.de,
	geert@...ux-m68k.org, tg@...bsd.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH,RFC] random: collect cpu randomness

Hi Jörn,

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

See http://grsecurity.net/test/grsecurity-3.0-3.13.1-201402052349.patch
and search for PAX_LATENT_ENTROPY.

-Kees

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Kees Cook                                            @outflux.net
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