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From: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov@canonical.com>
Cc: simo@redhat.com, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] crypto: drbg - ensure most preferred type is FIPS health checked
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 11:19:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2739240.yfhAjsIXQE@tauon.chronox.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231029204823.663930-1-dimitri.ledkov@canonical.com>

Am Sonntag, 29. Oktober 2023, 21:48:20 CET schrieb Dimitri John Ledkov:

Hi Dimitri,

> drbg supports multiple types of drbg, and multiple parameters of
> each. Health check sanity only checks one drbg of a single type. One
> can enable all three types of drbg. And instead of checking the most
> preferred algorithm (last one wins), it is currently checking first
> one instead.

The purpose of the sanity check is to make sure the various thresholds are 
effective. For this, you need "a" DRBG, no matter which one.
> 
> Update ifdef to ensure that healthcheck prefers HMAC, over HASH, over
> CTR, last one wins, like all other code and functions.

I can see that this patch makes the code more consistent with the rest. Yet, I 
would doubt the "Fixes" indicator below is needed, though.

Anyhow:

Reviewed-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>

Ciao
Stephan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-10-30 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-29 20:48 [PATCH 1/4] crypto: drbg - ensure most preferred type is FIPS health checked Dimitri John Ledkov
2023-10-29 20:48 ` [PATCH 2/4] crypto: drbg - update FIPS CTR self-checks to aes256 Dimitri John Ledkov
2023-10-30 10:23   ` Stephan Mueller
2023-10-30 10:30     ` Dimitri John Ledkov
2023-10-30 10:35       ` Stephan Mueller
2023-10-29 20:48 ` [PATCH 3/4] crypto: drbg - ensure drbg hmac sha512 is used in FIPS selftests Dimitri John Ledkov
2023-10-30 10:25   ` Stephan Mueller
2023-10-29 20:48 ` [PATCH 4/4] crypto: drbg - Remove SHA1 from drbg Dimitri John Ledkov
2023-10-30 11:20   ` Stephan Mueller
2023-10-30 10:19 ` Stephan Mueller [this message]
2023-10-30 12:05 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] drbg small fixes Dimitri John Ledkov
2023-10-30 12:05   ` [PATCH v2 1/4] crypto: drbg - ensure most preferred type is FIPS health checked Dimitri John Ledkov
2023-10-30 12:05   ` [PATCH v2 2/4] crypto: drbg - update FIPS CTR self-checks to aes256 Dimitri John Ledkov
2023-10-30 12:05   ` [PATCH v2 3/4] crypto: drbg - ensure drbg hmac sha512 is used in FIPS selftests Dimitri John Ledkov
2023-10-30 12:05   ` [PATCH v2 4/4] crypto: drbg - Remove SHA1 from drbg Dimitri John Ledkov
2023-11-17 11:23   ` [PATCH v2 0/4] drbg small fixes Herbert Xu

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