Re: [PATCH v43 01/15] Linux Random Number Generator

From: Jason A. Donenfeld
Date: Mon Jan 10 2022 - 09:12:09 EST


Hi Marcelo,

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 2:24 PM Marcelo Henrique Cerri
<marcelo.cerri@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hoping that might help with the discussion and to explain why I do
> consider those solutions a "hack", that's the patch we've been using
> so far to achieve SP 800-90B compliance:
>
> https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~mhcerri/0001-UBUNTU-SAUCE-random-Use-Crypto-API-DRBG-for-urandom-.patch

Thanks for sending this in response to my request for it in our private thread.

Just to confirm, this little patch here gives you FIPS certification?

Jason