On 2/22/19 12:18 AM, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> The whole premise of reading from /dev/random is that it should only
> allow reads up to available estimated entropy. I'm assuming here that
> sane users of /dev/random will be reading in chunks of at least 128
> bits, reading smaller amounts for, say
On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 07:24:14PM +, Bernd Edlinger wrote:
>
> My observation, with a previous attempt (v3) of my patch is that a system
> where only interrupt randomness is available it takes typically 2 minutes
> to accomplish the initial seeding of the CRNG, if from there one has to
> wait
Hi Theodore,
On 2/21/19 1:32 AM, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Hi Brend,
>
> I've been looking at your patch, and as far as the core part of what
> you're patching, I think this patch below is a conceptually simpler
> way of fixing the original core problem. Please take a look and let
> me know what
Hi Brend,
I've been looking at your patch, and as far as the core part of what
you're patching, I think this patch below is a conceptually simpler
way of fixing the original core problem. Please take a look and let
me know what you think.
There are some other auxiliary things that your patch is
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