Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752571AbbETG32 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 May 2015 02:29:28 -0400 Received: from mail.eperm.de ([89.247.134.16]:57986 "EHLO mail.eperm.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752502AbbETG30 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 May 2015 02:29:26 -0400 From: Stephan Mueller To: Sandy Harris Cc: Herbert Xu , "Theodore Ts'o" , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] random: add random_initialized command line param Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 08:29:19 +0200 Message-ID: <3005024.K2tYVGR0qE@tauon> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.6 (Linux/3.19.5-200.fc21.x86_64; KDE/4.14.6; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <477328243.LmeEDk1ili@tauon> <20150518225807.GA25931@gondor.apana.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1140 Lines: 28 Am Dienstag, 19. Mai 2015, 18:40:20 schrieb Sandy Harris: Hi Sandy, > >When we do do it, I see no reason to support anything other than 128 >and 256, and I am not sure about retaining 128. Nor do I see any >reason this should be a command-line option rather than just a >compile-time constant. I would hazard to guess that a compile time option is a bit difficult for distributions which typically only want one kernel for all their user base. As that user base is typically large, they would potentially be unable to please everybody with a compile time option. But I see that such a change may not be warranted at this point. Though, I see that discussion may rise again in the future when such new requirements for 256 bit keys (not only AES, thanks Sandy for mentioning :-) ) are commonly raised. So, let us disregard the patch until hard requirements are coming up. Ciao Stephan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/