From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Chris Peterson <cpeterso@cpeterso.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [resend] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 11:49:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080529114941.099d8e2c@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0805282319090.19567@ikari.dreamhost.com>
On Wed, 28 May 2008 23:23:26 -0700 (PDT)
Chris Peterson <cpeterso@cpeterso.com> wrote:
>
> Remove network drivers' last few uses of theoretically-exploitable network
> entropy. Only 12 net drivers are affected. Headless boxes should use a
> more secure source of entropy, such as the userspace daemons rngd, clrngd,
> egd, audio_entropyd, and/or video_entroyd.
>
> I'm also thinking about writing a "Frankenstein" daemon that combines the
> entropy-collecting algorithms from those daemons into one. Whereas rngd
> only uses /dev/hw_random, my hypothetical daemon would make a best effort
> attempt: use /dev/hw_random if it exists, otherwise fallback (or use in
> addition) the other entropy sources.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Peterson <cpeterso@cpeterso.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-29 6:23 [PATCH] [resend] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM Chris Peterson
2008-05-29 10:49 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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2008-05-29 12:41 ` Martin Wilck
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2008-06-14 5:48 Chris Peterson
2008-06-14 9:43 ` Jeff Garzik
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2009-05-13 19:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-05-13 19:55 ` Matt Mackall
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