Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 May 2015 06:58:07 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] random: add random_initialized command line param |
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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. -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
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