Re: [PROPOSAL/PATCH] Fortuna PRNG in /dev/random

[James Morris]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> have *any* encryption algorithms in the kernel at all.  As to whether
> or not cryptoapi needs to be mandatory in the kernel, the question is
> aside from /dev/random, do most people need to have crypto in the
> kernel?  If they're not using ipsec, or crypto loop devices, etc.,
> they might not want to have the crypto api in their kernel
> unconditionally.

As far as I know embedded folk do not want the crypto API to be mandatory,
although I think Matt Mackall wanted to try and make something work
(perhaps a subset just for /dev/random use).


- James
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James Morris
<jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>



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