Re: [DISCUSSION PATCH 00/41] random: possible ways towards NIST SP800-90B compliance

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Sep 22 2020 - 12:21:34 EST


On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 03:23:44PM +0200, Torsten Duwe wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 10:40:37AM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> > Am Montag, 21. September 2020, 09:58:16 CEST schrieb Nicolai Stange:
> >
> > > - people dislike the approach of having two competing implementations for
> > > what is basically the same functionality in the kernel.
> >
> > Is this really so bad considering the security implications on this topic? We
> > also have multiple file systems, multiple memory allocators, etc...
>
> Exactly. I thought Linux was about the freedom of choice.

http://www.islinuxaboutchoice.com/

:)