Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 May 2008 11:47:40 -0700 | From | "Kok, Auke" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: >>> In short, I agree with Alan's IRQF_SAMPLE_DUBIOUS, and know of Linux >>> customers who also want the same. >> >> They should be made to read the Debian ssh security report - three times >> and understand the same would apply to them if something did cause their >> network packet arrivals to be observed or non-random >> >> Far better would be to get your CPU guys to put an RNG back into the >> systems or on the CPU die ala VIA. Given I've even seen people using VIA >> boxes as a random number feeder (streaming random numbers over SSL) there >> is clearly a demand 8) > > The Treacherous Platform Module includes an RNG. > > Someone (hi Jesse?) should implement support for TPM_GetRandom.
Sounds like something he should neither use in the e1000 driver nor implement :)
This would be an interesting thing to the generic rng support in linux though
Auke
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