Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S275591AbTHOAQm (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 20:16:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S275593AbTHOAQm (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 20:16:42 -0400 Received: from adsl-63-194-239-202.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.194.239.202]:46084 "EHLO mmp-linux.matchmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S275591AbTHOAQl (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 20:16:41 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 17:16:32 -0700 From: Mike Fedyk To: Jamie Lokier Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , Matt Mackall , James Morris , linux-kernel , Andrew Morton , davem@redhat.com Subject: Network Card Entropy? was: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make cryptoapi non-optional? Message-ID: <20030815001632.GI1027@matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: Jamie Lokier , Theodore Ts'o , Matt Mackall , James Morris , linux-kernel , Andrew Morton , davem@redhat.com References: <20030809173329.GU31810@waste.org> <20030810174528.GZ31810@waste.org> <20030811020919.GD10446@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <20030813035257.GB1244@think> <20030813183628.GC4405@mail.jlokier.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030813183628.GC4405@mail.jlokier.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 629 Lines: 13 On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 07:36:28PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Unfortunately it isn't airtight if the attacker can see the file in > flight to your NFS-mounted diskless box, although booting over NFS > would tend to introduce enough entropy by itself so we are fine here :) Assuming that all network drivers are contributing entropy... Was Robert Love's patch for this ever merged? - 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/