Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:25:33 -0700 | From | Deepak Saxena <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/5] RNG cleanup & new drivers attempt #1 |
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On Oct 19 2005, at 11:01, Jeff Garzik was caught saying: > Not interesting in pursuing this path. This has been discussed > endlessly, check the archives. > > We want the FIPS tests. Hardware (especially cheap hardware) is often > known to go haywire. Trusting hardware to do the FIPS tests is pretty > silly, since you're trusting the piece that might go haywire to tell you > its OK. RNGs have a history of suddenly providing non-random data, for > a variety of reasons (usually poor board wiring). > > We also want the userspace daemon because that gives the sysadmin far > more control over how much entropy is added to the system. 99.9% of the > cases in the real world, we don't want the RNG pumping entropy into the > pool at full speed. That will likely pump in more data than a system > needs, chewing CPU. The admin can't even kill the daemon to reclaim his > CPU, if its all in-kernel.
OK, understood. But other than the fastpath idea, are you OK with the direction I took with the code?
~Deepak
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