From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932391Ab1IHIl4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2011 04:41:56 -0400 Received: from 173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([173.166.109.252]:38944 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932140Ab1IHIly (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2011 04:41:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 04:41:42 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Steve Grubb Cc: "Ted Ts'o" , Jarod Wilson , Sasha Levin , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Matt Mackall , Neil Horman , Herbert Xu , Stephan Mueller , lkml Subject: Re: [PATCH] random: add blocking facility to urandom Message-ID: <20110908084142.GA4032@infradead.org> References: <1314974248-1511-1-git-send-email-jarod@redhat.com> <4E67B75B.8010500@redhat.com> <20110907192737.GD20571@thunk.org> <201109071602.24519.sgrubb@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201109071602.24519.sgrubb@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 04:02:24PM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote: > The only time this kicks in is when a system is under attack. If you have set this and > the system is running as normal, you will never notice it even there. So your userspace will break exactly when you least need it and can't debug it, awsome. Could you security certification folks please get off your crack ASAP?