Re: [RFC PATCH v12 3/4] Linux Random Number Generator

[Stephan Müller]

Am Mittwoch, 19. Juli 2017, 03:51:33 CEST schrieb Theodore Ts'o:

Hi Theodore,

> If the real unpredictability is really coming from the interrupts
> changing the state of the CPU microarchitecture, the real question is
> how many interrupts do you need before you consider things
> "unpredictable" to an adequate level of security?  Arguing that we
> should turn down the "interrupts per bit of entropy" in
> drivers/char/random.c is a much more honest way of having that
> discussion.

Please answer on the concerns given in [1] which explains that we cannot allow 
turning that knob in the current implementation.

[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-crypto/msg26316.html

Ciao
Stephan