From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752062AbeECGT2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2018 02:19:28 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:36681 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750923AbeECGT0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2018 02:19:26 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 08:19:25 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" , Laura Abbott , Justin Forbes , Jeremy Cline , Sultan Alsawaf , LKML , Jann Horn Subject: Re: Linux messages full of `random: get_random_u32 called from` Message-ID: <20180503061924.GA6999@amd> References: <20180429220519.GQ5965@thunk.org> <01000163186628e6-3fe4abfc-eaaf-470c-90c8-2d8ad91db8f1-000000@email.amazonses.com> <20180501125518.GI20585@thunk.org> <20180502000250.GI10479@thunk.org> <20180502162653.GB3461@thunk.org> <3851ac8b-357d-3c82-2195-936e3c459212@redhat.com> <20180502222522.GA15457@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180502222522.GA15457@thunk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed 2018-05-02 18:25:22, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 10:49:34AM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote: > >=20 > > It is a Fedora patch we're carrying > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libgcrypt/blob/master/f/libgcrypt-1.= 6.2-fips-ctor.patch#_23 > > so yes, it is a Fedora specific use case. > > From talking to the libgcrypt team, this is a FIPS mode requirement > > to run power on self test at the library constructor and the self > > test of libgrcypt ends up requiring a fully seeded RNG. Citation > > is in section 9.10 of > > https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/Projects/Cryptographic-Module-Validati= on-Program/documents/fips140-2/FIPS1402IG.pdf >=20 > Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but does Fedora need FIPS > compliance? Or is this something which is only required for RHEL? If RHEL needs it, Fedora needs it, too -- as Fedora is a beta test for RHEL. Pavel --=20 (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blo= g.html --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlrqqewACgkQMOfwapXb+vJ2uQCgpfcVgw1AoDGqcuNDOaXsEUiS YZ4AnjWKisjQ9fOeb4oYpt5v8SDBjJWn =DLvf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY--