Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 May 2008 15:10:17 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM |
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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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