From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>,
bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] New Generic HW RNG (#2)
Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 20:50:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200605072050.01719.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200605072039.08702.arnd@arndb.de>
On Sunday 07 May 2006 20:39, you wrote:
> On Sunday 07 May 2006 16:38, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > Second try. Various fixes included. This does even compile (and work) now. :)
> >
>
> It would be good to give the patches more descriptive names, currently
> they all have the same subject lines, which is not really helpful.
How to do this with quilt?
> > The userspace RNG daemon can later be updated to select the RNG through
> > /sys/class/misc/hw_random/ for convenience. For now it is sufficient to
> > use cat and echo -n on the sysfs attributes.
>
> When you're making the behaviour of hw_random configurable, maybe you could
> also add an option to automatically use the current hw_random driver to
> feed the /dev/random entropy pool on systems where the administrator trusts
> its randomness.
This has been discussed and it is not desired behaviour.
If you want to feed /dev/random, use rngd to read from /dev/hwrng,
validate the data and put it into /dev/random.
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-07 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-07 14:38 [patch 0/6] New Generic HW RNG (#2) Michael Buesch
2006-05-07 14:38 ` [patch 1/6] " Michael Buesch
2006-05-07 14:38 ` [patch 2/6] " Michael Buesch
2006-05-07 14:38 ` [patch 3/6] " Michael Buesch
2006-05-07 15:22 ` Sergey Vlasov
2006-05-07 15:39 ` Michael Buesch
2006-05-07 16:24 ` Sergey Vlasov
2006-05-07 14:38 ` [patch 4/6] " Michael Buesch
2006-05-07 14:38 ` [patch 5/6] " Michael Buesch
2006-05-07 14:38 ` [patch 6/6] " Michael Buesch
2006-05-07 18:39 ` [patch 0/6] " Arnd Bergmann
2006-05-07 18:50 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2006-05-07 18:47 ` Arnd Bergmann
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=200605072050.01719.mb@bu3sch.de \
--to=mb@bu3sch.de \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=arnd@arndb.de \
--cc=bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de \
--cc=dsaxena@plexity.net \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=vsu@altlinux.ru \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox