Am Freitag, 29. November 2013, 19:05:00 schrieb coderman: Hi coderman,
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 4:54 PM, coderman <[email protected]> wrote: > > ... > > 0. "extract_buf() - 'If we have a architectural hardware random number > > generator [ED.: but only RDRAND], mix that in, too.'" > > > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/dri > > vers/char/random.c#n1038 > hopefully my last mea culpa, > > but the issue above is fully resolved in latest linux git; Theodore > Ts'o's work to harden the entropy system in Linux should be commended. > > the less better version directly xor's RDRAND with the pool output > before handing back to consumer. > see v3.12 or earlier: > http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/char/random.c?v=3.12#L945 > > which looks like this: > This code is already in since 3.4 or so. IIRC, your mentioned code never appeared on a final kernel tree. Ciao Stephan -- | Cui bono? | _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
