Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262807AbVCXMPx (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2005 07:15:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263105AbVCXMPw (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2005 07:15:52 -0500 Received: from dea.vocord.ru ([217.67.177.50]:18658 "EHLO vocord.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262807AbVCXMPl (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2005 07:15:41 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11) From: Evgeniy Polyakov Reply-To: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru To: Andrew Morton Cc: David McCullough , cryptoapi@lists.logix.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, jmorris@redhat.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au In-Reply-To: <20050323203856.17d650ec.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20050315133644.GA25903@beast> <20050324042708.GA2806@beast> <20050323203856.17d650ec.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-1iEeZs3btkOotNtHZyol" Organization: MIPT Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:21:43 +0300 Message-Id: <1111666903.23532.95.camel@uganda> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-1) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.4 (vocord.com [192.168.0.1]); Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:14:31 +0300 (MSK) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1436 Lines: 51 --=-1iEeZs3btkOotNtHZyol Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 20:38 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > David McCullough wrote: > > > > Here is a small patch for 2.6.11 that adds a routine: > >=20 > > add_true_randomness(__u32 *buf, int nwords); >=20 > It neither applies correctly nor compiles in current kernels. 2.6.11 is > very old in kernel time. >=20 > Are we likely to see any in-kernel users of this? Any external crtypto framework can add entropy using that routing. Currently it can be - OCF - acrypto - hw_random.c hw_random.c already does it using userspace daemons, which is bad idea for very fast HW - like VIA xstore/xcrypt=20 instructions. --=20 Evgeniy Polyakov Crash is better than data corruption -- Arthur Grabowski --=-1iEeZs3btkOotNtHZyol Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCQrDXIKTPhE+8wY0RAjCvAJ9nODOPN7hEwF1wSd4sa0Xa/Jp5cQCeNstY fuYLs7Uv9bdLpSojBQ0IQ/c= =cAhP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-1iEeZs3btkOotNtHZyol-- - 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/