From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752156AbaEZLbH (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2014 07:31:07 -0400 Received: from mail.eperm.de ([89.247.134.16]:43779 "EHLO mail.eperm.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751957AbaEZLbF (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2014 07:31:05 -0400 X-AuthUser: sm@eperm.de From: Stephan Mueller To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, aquini@redhat.com, jeremy.wayne.powell@gmail.com, clemens@ladisch.de, pwalten@au1.ibm.com, joe@perches.com Subject: [PATCH v8 7/7] Add documentation of drbg.stdrng Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 13:30:36 +0200 Message-ID: <1427752.f9YxQ9FBNN@myon.chronox.de> User-Agent: KMail/4.12.5 (Linux/3.14.4-200.fc20.x86_64; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1672386.pGc00MSMM2@myon.chronox.de> References: <1672386.pGc00MSMM2@myon.chronox.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The drbg.stdrng kernel command line flag allows the selection of the DRBG used as stdrng. Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 30a8ad0d..b970ba2 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -855,6 +855,16 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. The filter can be disabled or changed to another driver later using sysfs. + drbg.stdrng= + Kernel crypto API name of the SP800-90A DRBG that + is marked as "stdrng". Parts of the kernel requiring + random numbers may use the "stdrng" random number + generator. In FIPS mode (when the kernel command line + parameter fips=1 is provided), the priority of the + DRBG stdrng is increased to be higher than other + stdrng definitions. This implies, the DRBG is used as + default in FIPS mode. + drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=[:] Broken monitors, graphic adapters and KVMs may send no or incorrect EDID data sets. This parameter -- 1.9.3