Re: FYI/RFC: early-rng-init-tools

2019-03-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2019-03-03 at 22:55 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 08:19:44PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sun, 2019-03-03 at 18:59 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > [...] > > > Most people will actually have at least 2 hardware RNGs: One in > > > the CPU and one in the TPM. We can m

Re: FYI/RFC: early-rng-init-tools

2019-03-03 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 08:19:44PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2019-03-03 at 18:59 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > [...] > > Most people will actually have at least 2 hardware RNGs: One in > > the CPU and one in the TPM. We can make the kernel trust those as > > entropy source without using s

Re: FYI/RFC: early-rng-init-tools

2019-03-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2019-03-03 at 18:59 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: [...] > Most people will actually have at least 2 hardware RNGs: One in > the CPU and one in the TPM. We can make the kernel trust those as > entropy source without using something in userspace to feed it. > I'm not sure in the kernel has the op

Re: FYI/RFC: early-rng-init-tools

2019-03-03 Thread Kurt Roeckx
I think the only sane things are: - Use a hardware RNG (CPU, TPM, chaos key, ...) - Credit a seed file stored during the previous boot - Wait for new entropy from other sources Note that is can be a combination of all 3. We currently do not credit the seed file, for various good reasons. We shoul

Bug#923664: ITP: circuit-macros -- Macros for drawing electric circuits

2019-03-03 Thread Aniol Marti
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Aniol Marti * Package name: circuit-macros Version : 8.9.3 Upstream Author : J. D. Aplevich * URL : https://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~aplevich/Circuit_macros/ * License : LPPL Programming Lang: M4 Description : Macros for