On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 7:55 PM, Stephan Müller wrote:
> But you bring up an interesting point: if it is true you say that it is hard
> for people to use differnent types of APIs regarding entropy and random
> numbers right (which I would concur with), and considering that you imply that
> get_ran
On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> You are effectively proposing that there ought to be a middle range of
> security between prandom_32, get_random_u32/get_random_u64 and
> get_random_bytes(). I think that's going to lead to all sorts of
> complexity and bugs from people not
Am Sonntag, 18. Juni 2017, 17:46:25 CEST schrieb Theodore Ts'o:
Hi Theodore,
> > IMHO, users using the get_random_u64 or get_random_u32 are use cases that
> > do not require a fully seeded DRNG thus do not need a cryptographically
> > strong random number. Hence, I would think that the logging sh
On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 01:59:43PM +0200, Stephan Müller wrote:
> I would think that the issue regarding the logging is relevant for
> cryptographic use cases or use cases requiring strong random numbers only.
> Only those use cases should be fixed eventually to wait for a fully seeded
> DRNG.
>
Am Donnerstag, 15. Juni 2017, 13:03:48 CEST schrieb Michael Ellerman:
Hi Michael,
>
> Even with this patch, it's still pretty spammy (today's linux-next):
>
I would think that the issue regarding the logging is relevant for
cryptographic use cases or use cases requiring strong random numbers
Theodore Ts'o writes:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 07:48:04PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
>> This enables an important dmesg notification about when drivers have
>> used the crng without it being seeded first. Prior, these errors would
>> occur silently, and so there hasn't been a great way of d
On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> At the very least we probably should do a logical "uniq" on the output
> (e.g., if we have complained about the previous callsite, don't whinge
> about it again).
That seems okay to me.
On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> This enables an important dmesg notification about when drivers have
> used the crng without it being seeded first. Prior, these errors would
> occur silently, and so there hasn't been a great way of diagnosing these
> types of bugs for o
On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 07:48:04PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> This enables an important dmesg notification about when drivers have
> used the crng without it being seeded first. Prior, these errors would
> occur silently, and so there hasn't been a great way of diagnosing these
> types of b
