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SubjectRe: [PATCH] random: add random_initialized command line param
Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> wrote:
>
> I hear more and more discussions about recommendations to use AES 256 and not
> AES 128.
>
> These kind of recommendations will eventually also affect the entropy
> requirements for noise sources. This is my motivation for the patch: allowing
> different user groups to set the minimum bar for the nonblocking pool to
> *higher* levels (the examples for 80 to 112 bits or 100 to 125 bits shall just
> show that there are active revisions of entropy requirements).

Does anyone need to raise this from 128 today? If not then this
patch is pointless.
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