Messages in this thread | | | Date | 29 Mar 2005 17:03:25 +0200 | Date | Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:03:25 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11) |
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On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 02:17:24AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > >BTW what do you do when the FIPS test fails? I dont see a good fallback > >path for this case. > > If the FIPS test fails, do the obvious: don't feed that data to the > kernel (and credit entropy), and possibly stop using the hardware RNG
This will just cause hangs; basically it is a DOS.
> under a human has intervened. > > This is not rocket science. The fallback path is "use software", which > is what most users do right now anyway.
Just that use software does not work on a headless machine sitting in a rack with not much disk IO.
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