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The 5.3 kernel is out

The 5.3 kernel is out

Posted Sep 17, 2019 9:41 UTC (Tue) by njs (subscriber, #40338)
In reply to: The 5.3 kernel is out by patrakov
Parent article: The 5.3 kernel is out

IIRC Ted T'so has a longstanding veto on using jitterentropy to increment the random pool entropy counter in the past, on the grounds that we don't actually know where the apparent randomness comes from and whether it's actually unpredictable or not, esp. against an active attacker who can manipulate microarchitectural state.


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The 5.3 kernel is out

Posted Sep 17, 2019 9:44 UTC (Tue) by patrakov (subscriber, #97174) [Link]

Thanks, that's useful to know. But he surely knows that Debian installs haveged by default on systems lacking rdrand, thus circumventing his veto.


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