Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 May 2008 11:49:41 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [resend] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM |
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On Wed, 28 May 2008 23:23:26 -0700 (PDT) Chris Peterson <cpeterso@cpeterso.com> wrote:
> > Remove network drivers' last few uses of theoretically-exploitable network > entropy. Only 12 net drivers are affected. Headless boxes should use a > more secure source of entropy, such as the userspace daemons rngd, clrngd, > egd, audio_entropyd, and/or video_entroyd. > > I'm also thinking about writing a "Frankenstein" daemon that combines the > entropy-collecting algorithms from those daemons into one. Whereas rngd > only uses /dev/hw_random, my hypothetical daemon would make a best effort > attempt: use /dev/hw_random if it exists, otherwise fallback (or use in > addition) the other entropy sources. > > > Signed-off-by: Chris Peterson <cpeterso@cpeterso.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
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