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    SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v12 3/4] Linux Random Number Generator
    On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 08:22:18AM +0200, Stephan Müller wrote:
    > Am Dienstag, 18. Juli 2017, 23:08:16 CEST schrieb Theodore Ts'o:
    >
    > Hi Theodore,
    > >
    > > I've been trying to take the best features and suggestions from your
    > > proposal and integrating them into /dev/random already. Things that
    > > I've chosen not take is basically because I disbelieve that the Jitter
    > > RNG is valid. And that's mostly becuase I trust Peter Anvin (who has
    > > access to Intel chip architects, who has expressed unease) more than
    > > you. (No hard feelings).
    >
    > I am unsure why you always point to the Jitter RNG. This is one noise source
    > to keep or to remove -- at least it provides more data during early boot than
    > any other noise source we currently have.
    >
    > In the email [1] I have expressed the core concerns I see -- none of them
    > address the need to keep the Jitter RNG as one noise source. To address those,
    > a very deep dive into random.c needs to be made.
    >
    > Such deep dive has the potential to be disruptive. Therefore, doesn't it make
    > more sense to have such conceptual changes rather covered in a separate
    > implementation?

    No, it makes more sense to send individual patches addressing your
    concerns to the existing random driver. Again, that's how
    kernel development has always worked.

    thanks,

    greg k-h

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