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SubjectRe: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
Kok, Auke wrote:
> 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

That's what I meant. Support should be implemented in the appropriate
place in order to solve the problem Jesse's complaining about. That
appropriate place being drivers/char/hw_random/

Jeff






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