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.
