From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: implement new prng, Vegard's PRNG Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:58:35 +0800 Message-ID: <20090327065835.GA27208@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20090225151243.GA31418@damson.getinternet.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org To: Vegard Nossum Return-path: Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:40498 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750944AbZC0G6k (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:58:40 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090225151243.GA31418@damson.getinternet.no> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 04:12:43PM +0100, Vegard Nossum wrote: > > I realize that submitting a non-cryptographically secure algorithm to a > crypto mailing list might not make too much sense. On the other hand, it > shouldn't hurt either, and I've written this, so why not? I don't know > if this is actually useful for anything at all, so this patch is more of > an "it exists" rather than a serious patch submission. > > The only obvious property of this algorithm is its fixed, known sequence > period. > > (Note: I didn't actually test the code either, so it could all be wrong.) > > Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum If we actually had an in-kernel user for this then I'd be more than happy to add this :) -- 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