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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] wireguard: device: clear keys on VM fork
On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 12:44:45PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 9:36 AM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Catastrophic cryptographic failure sounds bad :(
> > So in another thread we discussed that there's a race with this
> > approach, and we don't know how big it is. Question is how expensive
> > it would be to fix it properly checking for fork after every use of
> > key+nonce and before transmitting it. I did a quick microbenchmark
> > and it did not seem too bad - care posting some numbers?
>
> I followed up in that thread, which is a larger one, so it might be
> easiest to keep discussion there. My response to you here is the same
> as it was over there. :)
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHmME9pf-bjnZuweoLqoFEmPy1OK7ogEgGEAva1T8uVTufhCuw@mail.gmail.com/
>
> Jason

Okay. The reason to respond here was since this is the user of the
interface. Maybe unite the patchsets?

Thanks,

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MST

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