Stephan Mueller wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 13. November 2013, 12:51:44 schrieb Clemens Ladisch:
(And any setting that increases accesses to main memory is likey to
introduce more entropy due to clock drift between the processor and the
memory bus. Or where do you assume the entropy comes from?)
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:25:47AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
Hi:
Hi Herbert,
just seen this as my old email address is dead... Your patch looks
fine as it keeps the iv and the key together as required by the instruction.
However, I'm curious how this could be racy with threads. The encryption
Am Donnerstag, 14. November 2013, 11:51:03 schrieb Clemens Ladisch:
Hi Clemens,
Stephan Mueller wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 13. November 2013, 12:51:44 schrieb Clemens Ladisch:
(And any setting that increases accesses to main memory is likey to
introduce more entropy due to clock drift between the
Stephan Mueller wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 14. November 2013, 11:51:03 schrieb Clemens Ladisch:
An attacker would not try to detect patterns; he would apply knowledge
of the internals.
I do not buy that argument, because if an attacker can detect or deduce
the internals of the CPU, he surely can
Am Donnerstag, 14. November 2013, 19:30:22 schrieb Clemens Ladisch:
Hi Clemens,
Stephan Mueller wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 14. November 2013, 11:51:03 schrieb Clemens Ladisch:
An attacker would not try to detect patterns; he would apply
knowledge
of the internals.
I do not buy that argument,
From: Jie Liu jeff@oracle.com
In skcipher_alloc_sgl(), there is a potential null pointer dereference
issue to retrieve the last item from ctx-tsgl list if the list is empty.
This patch fix it by checking if the list is empty or not at first.
Signed-off-by: Jie Liu jeff@oracle.com
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