linux-kernel - Re: early x86 unseeded randomness

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Message-ID: <20170815152627.azjj2ujg6uuogttn@pd.tnic>
Date:   Tue, 15 Aug 2017 17:26:28 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        x86-ml <x86@...nel.org>, "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@...r.at>
Subject: Re: early x86 unseeded randomness

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 04:42:47PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> I'm not saying it's a replacement for the run time random generator, but
> it's exceptionally good and reasonably fast for the early boot
> randomization.

... which suffices our purposes. It's not like we're going to generate
long-term key pairs with it.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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