linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] random: add random_initialized command line param

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Message-ID: <20150518225807.GA25931@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Tue, 19 May 2015 06:58:07 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>
Cc:	tytso@....edu, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] random: add random_initialized command line param

Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de> wrote:
>
> I hear more and more discussions about recommendations to use AES 256 and not 
> AES 128.
> 
> These kind of recommendations will eventually also affect the entropy 
> requirements for noise sources. This is my motivation for the patch: allowing 
> different user groups to set the minimum bar for the nonblocking pool to 
> *higher* levels (the examples for 80 to 112 bits or 100 to 125 bits shall just 
> show that there are active revisions of entropy requirements).

Does anyone need to raise this from 128 today? If not then this
patch is pointless.
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