Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261419AbVCYGVy (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Mar 2005 01:21:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261439AbVCYGTH (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Mar 2005 01:19:07 -0500 Received: from dea.vocord.ru ([217.67.177.50]:30184 "EHLO vocord.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261420AbVCYGKU (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Mar 2005 01:10:20 -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: Jeff Garzik Cc: David McCullough , cryptoapi@lists.logix.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , James Morris , Herbert Xu In-Reply-To: <4243A86D.6000408@pobox.com> References: <20050315133644.GA25903@beast> <20050324042708.GA2806@beast> <1111665551.23532.90.camel@uganda> <4242B712.50004@pobox.com> <20050324132342.GD7115@beast> <1111671993.23532.115.camel@uganda> <42432972.5020906@pobox.com> <1111725282.23532.130.camel@uganda> <42439839.7060702@pobox.com> <1111728804.23532.137.camel@uganda> <4243A86D.6000408@pobox.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-E8jNKOYoa8NbmaNFSNTn" Organization: MIPT Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:16:01 +0300 Message-Id: <1111731361.20797.5.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]); Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:09:33 +0300 (MSK) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1385 Lines: 47 --=-E8jNKOYoa8NbmaNFSNTn Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 00:58 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > So I still insist on creating ability to contribute entropy directly, > > without userspace validation. > > It will be turned off by default. >=20 > If its disabled by default, then you and 2-3 other people will use this=20 > feature. Not enough justification for a kernel API at that point. It is only because there are only couple of HW crypto devices in the tree, with one crypto framework inclusion there will be at least redouble. Let's return to this discussion after it. Thank you. > Jeff >=20 --=20 Evgeniy Polyakov Crash is better than data corruption -- Arthur Grabowski --=-E8jNKOYoa8NbmaNFSNTn 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) iD8DBQBCQ6yhIKTPhE+8wY0RAu1dAKCKWWfQJ9LFIMzZ+LfoLsmBQQ3mgACfUf7p VQEA2bM2Fj/jaU0yEgsK9vw= =T4eU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-E8jNKOYoa8NbmaNFSNTn-- - 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/