From: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
To: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Cc: tytso@mit.edu
Subject: USB HID devices not linked to RNG
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2015 02:10:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1735492.1FWVU9y0M8@myon.chronox.de> (raw)
Hi,
While analyzing the entropy sources for the random number generator in
drivers/char/random.c, I saw that a USB mouse and a USB keyboard does trigger
the add_input_randomness function to be triggered.
Is that intended?
--
Ciao
Stephan
next reply other threads:[~2015-09-07 0:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-07 0:10 Stephan Mueller [this message]
2015-09-07 0:12 ` USB HID devices not linked to RNG Stephan Mueller
2015-09-07 20:07 ` Mike Mestnik
2015-09-07 21:09 ` Stephan Mueller
2015-09-09 5:40 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2015-09-09 12:24 ` Stephan Mueller
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