linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 0/5] Seeding DRBG with more entropy

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Message-ID: <20150527095523.GB28255@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Wed, 27 May 2015 17:55:23 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>
Cc:	pebolle@...cali.nl, andreas.steffen@...ongswan.org, tytso@....edu,
	sandyinchina@...il.com, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 0/5] Seeding DRBG with more entropy

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 03:08:08PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as of now, the DRBG is only seeded from get_random_bytes. In various
> circumstances, the nonblocking_pool behind get_random_bytes may not be fully
> seeded from hardware events at the time the DRBG requires to be seeded.
> Based on the discussion in [1], the DRBG seeding is updated such that it
> does not completely rely on get_random_bytes any more.

All applied to cryptodev.  Thanks a lot!
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