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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
Andi Kleen wrote:
> Herbert Xu wrote:
>
>>
>> You can continue to feed data into the pool even if it fails the
>> test. You just keep the entropy value same as before.
>>
>
> You could do that, but what advantage would it have? I don't think it's
> worth running the FIPS test, or rather requiring the user land daemon
> and leaving behind most of the userbase just for this.
>
Security through obfuscation?
Someone trying to predict the RNG can do so in theory, but if
they have to keep track of network timings, disk activity, and 5 other
things, then
chances are that they fail ofen enough even if the attack is possible
"in theory".

Helge Hafting


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