Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Sep 2013 19:39:47 -0400 | Subject | Re: TPMs and random numbers | From | Jeff Garzik <> |
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Jörn Engel <joern@logfs.org> wrote: > On Wed, 11 September 2013 14:47:04 -0400, David Safford wrote: >> But I also think that the existing (certified) TPMs are good enough >> for direct use.
> That is equivalent to trusting the TPM chip not to be malicious. It
Indeed. While it need not be rngd or userland at all, it seems reasonable to require any hardware RNG to have its data pushed through AES mix steps (as kernel random does now IIUC).
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