Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261335AbVCYFta (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Mar 2005 00:49:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261366AbVCYFta (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Mar 2005 00:49:30 -0500 Received: from arnor.apana.org.au ([203.14.152.115]:16909 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261335AbVCYFtU (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Mar 2005 00:49:20 -0500 Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:46:34 +1100 To: Jeff Garzik Cc: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, Andrew Morton , David McCullough , cryptoapi@lists.logix.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, jmorris@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11) Message-ID: <20050325054634.GA22878@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20050315133644.GA25903@beast> <20050324042708.GA2806@beast> <20050323203856.17d650ec.akpm@osdl.org> <1111666903.23532.95.camel@uganda> <42432596.2090709@pobox.com> <1111724759.23532.121.camel@uganda> <42439781.4080007@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42439781.4080007@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Herbert Xu Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 731 Lines: 19 On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:45:53PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > I agree with this sentiment; this is mainly a policy decision that > kernel programmers should not make. Exactly. Policy decisions like this as well as entropy checking should be done in user-space. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - 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/