From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Linux Kernel Developers List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
macro@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org, dave.taht@gmail.com,
blogic@openwrt.org, andrewmcgr@gmail.com, smueller@chronox.de,
geert@linux-m68k.org, tg@mirbsd.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH,RFC] random: collect cpu randomness
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 13:48:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140203184857.GA26740@logfs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140203163729.GA13634@thunk.org>
On Mon, 3 February 2014 11:37:29 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>
> So we could take the struct pt_regs which we get from get_irq_regs(),
> XOR them together and use them to feed into input[2] amd input[3] in
> add_interrupt_randomness(). Or some other way of distributing the
> values of all of the irq registers into the __u32 input[4] array.
>
> That would probably be a good and useful thing to do. Was that
> basically what you were suggesting?
Yes.
Jörn
--
When you copy some code, you are supposed to read it. If nothing else,
there's a chance to spot and fix an obvious bug instead of sharing it...
-- Al Viro
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-03 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-02 20:36 [PATCH,RFC] random: collect cpu randomness Jörn Engel
2014-02-02 21:25 ` Stephan Mueller
2014-02-03 1:24 ` Jörn Engel
2014-02-03 1:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-03 13:36 ` Stephan Mueller
2014-02-03 1:39 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-02-03 3:35 ` Jörn Engel
2014-02-03 12:54 ` Thorsten Glaser
2014-02-03 13:06 ` Stephan Mueller
2014-02-03 15:50 ` Jörn Engel
2014-02-03 16:37 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-02-03 18:48 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2014-03-23 18:00 ` [PATCH] random: mix all saved registers into entropy pool Jörn Engel
2014-02-03 21:54 ` [PATCH,RFC] random: collect cpu randomness Maciej W. Rozycki
2014-02-03 22:44 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-02-06 22:20 ` Kees Cook
2014-02-06 22:21 ` Dave Taht
2014-02-07 7:44 ` Jörn Engel
2014-02-20 9:50 ` Paolo Bonzini
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