From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: [PATCH] random: add random_initialized command line param Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 06:58:07 +0800 Message-ID: <20150518225807.GA25931@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <477328243.LmeEDk1ili@tauon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: tytso@mit.edu, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Stephan Mueller Return-path: Received: from helcar.hengli.com.au ([209.40.204.226]:51951 "EHLO helcar.hengli.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753984AbbERW6S (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 May 2015 18:58:18 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <477328243.LmeEDk1ili@tauon> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Stephan Mueller wrote: > > I hear more and more discussions about recommendations to use AES 256 and not > AES 128. > > These kind of recommendations will eventually also affect the entropy > requirements for noise sources. This is my motivation for the patch: allowing > different user groups to set the minimum bar for the nonblocking pool to > *higher* levels (the examples for 80 to 112 bits or 100 to 125 bits shall just > show that there are active revisions of entropy requirements). Does anyone need to raise this from 128 today? If not then this patch is pointless. -- Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt