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

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Oct 02 2020 - 11:12:18 EST


On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 02:34:44PM +0000, Van Leeuwen, Pascal wrote:
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> > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, October 2, 2020 4:04 PM
> > To: Van Leeuwen, Pascal <pvanleeuwen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Torsten Duwe <duwe@xxxxxx>; Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>; linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Nicolai Stange
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> > Subject: Re: [DISCUSSION PATCH 00/41] random: possible ways towards NIST SP800-90B compliance
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> > On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 01:35:18PM +0000, Van Leeuwen, Pascal wrote:
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> > As per my legal department requests, this is now ignored and deleted on
> > my system...
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> > Hint, it's not a valid footer for public mailing lists...
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> > greg k-h
> It's automatically added by our company mail server ... not something I can control at all :-(

Then your company can not contribute in Linux kernel development, as
this is obviously not allowed by such a footer.

Please work with your IT and legal department to fix this.

thanks,

greg k-h