Re: Antw: Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v4 06/13] iscsi: ensure RNG is seeded before use

2017-07-10 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 09:16:09AM -0400, Paul Koning wrote: > > In the implementations I know, /dev/random and /dev/urandom are the > same driver, the only difference is that when you read from > /dev/random there's a check for the current entropy level. It's in the same driver but /dev/random

Re: Antw: Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v4 06/13] iscsi: ensure RNG is seeded before use

2017-07-10 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 09:03:43AM +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote: > > Note, during the development of my /dev/random implementation, I added the > > getrandom-like blocking behavior to /dev/urandom (which is the equivalent to > > Jason's patch except that it applies to user space). The boot process