From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwrng: core - zeroize buffers with random data
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 08:42:49 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161101004249.GA7375@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5934786.pstHyKoYpf@positron.chronox.de>
On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 03:57:05PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>
> The HWRNG core allocates two buffers during initialization which are
> used to obtain random data. After that data is processed, it is now
> zeroized as it is possible that the HWRNG core will not be asked to
> produce more random data for a long time. This prevents leaving such
> sensitive data in memory.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Patch applied. Thanks.
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2016-10-22 13:57 [PATCH] hwrng: core - zeroize buffers with random data Stephan Mueller
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