Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:24:10 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11) | From | folkert@vanheusd ... |
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> > For joe-user imho it's better to do a check from a cronjob once a day. But for > > high demand security, maybe make it pluggable? Like that a user can plug-in some > > module which does the testing? Then you can have several kinds of tests > > depending on your needs. > In my old 2.4 patch there was a sysctl to turn off the kernel reseeding. > If you turn it off you can do it in user space. That might be > an option for the clinical paranoid. > BTW what do you do when the FIPS test fails? I dont see a good fallback > path for this case.
Send a message to klogd and let read() block untill the test no longer fails.
Folkert van Heusden
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