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From: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
To: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@kot-begemot.co.uk>,
	linux-um@lists.infradead.org,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: jitterentropy vs. simulation
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 11:35:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4603694.2J7E7teO9M@tauon.chronox.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e863c5fd47d6b4c36a8f4554d4470ad92e51abea.camel@sipsolutions.net>

Am Montag, 4. Dezember 2023, 11:24:25 CET schrieb Johannes Berg:

Hi Johannes,

> 
> Well it _looks_ like it might be possible to get rid of it (see above),
> however, what I was really thinking is that jitter RNG might detect that
> it doesn't actually get any reasonable data and eventually give up,
> rather than looping indefinitely? It seems that might be useful more
> generally too?

Agreed. Let me have a close look at the patch then.

Thanks.

Ciao
Stephan




  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-04 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-01 10:21 jitterentropy vs. simulation Johannes Berg
2023-12-01 18:03 ` Anton Ivanov
2023-12-01 18:35   ` Johannes Berg
2023-12-01 19:25     ` Simo Sorce
2023-12-01 20:04       ` Johannes Berg
2023-12-04  8:52     ` Stephan Mueller
2023-12-04 10:24       ` Johannes Berg
2023-12-04 10:35         ` Stephan Mueller [this message]
2023-12-04 12:06     ` Benjamin Beichler
2023-12-04 12:50       ` Anton Ivanov

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