netdev - Re: [patch 01/11] random32: seeding improvement

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Date:	Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:29:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, shemminger@...ux-foundation.org,
	ak@...e.de, bboissin@...il.com, lloyd@...dombit.net,
	mpm@...enic.com, shemminger@...tta.com, tytso@....edu
Subject: Re: [patch 01/11] random32: seeding improvement

From: akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:37:33 -0700

> The rationale is:
>    * use u32 consistently
>    * no need to do LCG on values from (better) get_random_bytes
>    * use more data from get_random_bytes for secondary seeding
>    * don't reduce state space on srandom32()
>    * enforce state variable initialization restrictions
> 
> Note: the second paper has a version of random32() with even longer period
> and a version of random64() if needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>

Applied.
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