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

[Torsten Duwe]

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 18:21:52 +0200
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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/
> 
> :)

Talk is cheap.

gzip -dc /proc/config.gz | wc -l
9789

:-P
	Torsten