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From: andrea.glorioso@binary-only.com
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Are linux network drivers really affected by this?
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>>>>> "ac" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

    ac> Most of  them will pad with zero.  We have a couple of drivers
    ac> that already pad with something along  the lines of "NetBSD is
    ac> a cool OS too.."

Let's talk about subliminal messages, then. :)

How sensible would it be to have a runtime or  compile time option for
choosing between zero padding and  random values padding?  I think the
variable length of the  padding could cause some performance problems,
but I'm no kernel hacker nor cryptography expert.

    ac> The -ac tree should have the problem fixed for all the drivers
    ac> I know have the problem or may do.

Great.

bye,

andrea
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