From: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] enhance RNG api with flags to allow for different operational modes
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:18:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB29990.30303@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090917201622.GA22003@gondor.apana.org.au>
On 09/17/2009 04:16 PM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 01:08:24PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
>>
>> Just so that I'm clear on what your suggesting, you're approach would be to
>> register two algs in ansi_cprng, a 'raw' cprng, and a 'fips compliant cprng'
>> underneath that used the raw cprng as a base, but implemented the continuity
>> test underneath it? If so, yeah, I can get behind that idea. I'll spin a new
>> set of patches shortly.
>
> Yes, exactly like how we structure the raw CTR and RFC3686 which
> is CTR tailored for IPsec.
Yeah, I like that solution as well, does feel less dirty. So
essentially, in fips mode, we'd wind up using fips(ansi_cprng) or
similar, while the self-tests are done against raw ansi_cprng, correct?
--
Jarod Wilson
jarod@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-17 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-16 16:04 [PATCH 0/3] enhance RNG api with flags to allow for different operational modes Neil Horman
2009-09-16 16:11 ` [PATCH 1/3] add RNG api calls to set common flags Neil Horman
2009-09-16 20:56 ` Jarod Wilson
2009-09-16 16:13 ` [PATCH 2/3] augment the testmgr code to set TEST_MODE flag on all rng instances Neil Horman
2009-09-16 20:57 ` Jarod Wilson
2009-09-16 16:25 ` [PATCH 3/3] augment CPRNG to correctly implement continuous test for FIPS, and support TEST_MODE flags Neil Horman
2009-09-16 20:57 ` Jarod Wilson
2009-09-16 20:56 ` [PATCH 0/3] enhance RNG api with flags to allow for different operational modes Jarod Wilson
2009-09-17 3:37 ` Herbert Xu
2009-09-17 12:28 ` Jarod Wilson
2009-09-17 12:43 ` Neil Horman
2009-09-17 15:39 ` Herbert Xu
2009-09-17 17:08 ` Neil Horman
2009-09-17 20:16 ` Herbert Xu
2009-09-17 20:18 ` Jarod Wilson [this message]
2009-09-17 20:23 ` Herbert Xu
2009-09-18 18:32 ` [PATCH 0/1] enhance RNG api with flags to allow for different operational modes (v2) Neil Horman
2009-09-18 18:34 ` [PATCH 1/1] add fips(ansi_cprng) (v2) Neil Horman
2009-09-19 1:12 ` Jarod Wilson
2009-10-19 2:56 ` Herbert Xu
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