* Re: [PULL] random changes for 3.11
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@ 2017-03-10 17:40 ` Theodore Ts'o
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From: Theodore Ts'o @ 2017-03-10 17:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: torvalds; +Cc: linux-kernel, Jason
Oops, sorry, I forgot to CC the linux-kernel mailing list.
- Ted
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:16:49AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
> Apologies this pull request is late. Between travel for the FAST
> conference, performance review, and paper review deadlines for Usenix
> ATC, this just fell between the cracks.
>
> There's nothing particularly risky or controversial here; the biggest
> change was getting rid of the MD5 rng and replacing it with the
> ChaCha20 based CRNG that we use for /dev/random and getrandom(2).
> It's faster, more secure, and deletes code.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Ted
>
> The following changes since commit a121103c922847ba5010819a3f250f1f7fc84ab8:
>
> Linux 4.10-rc3 (2017-01-08 14:18:17 -0800)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random.git tags/random_for_linus
>
> for you to fetch changes up to db61ffe3a71c697aaa91c42c862a5f7557a0e562:
>
> random: move random_min_urandom_seed into CONFIG_SYSCTL ifdef block (2017-02-06 20:46:49 -0500)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Change get_random_{int,log} to use the CRNG used by /dev/urandom and
> getrandom(2). It's faster and arguably more secure than cut-down MD5
> that we had been using.
>
> Also do some code cleanup.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Fabio Estevam (1):
> random: move random_min_urandom_seed into CONFIG_SYSCTL ifdef block
>
> Jason A. Donenfeld (2):
> random: use chacha20 for get_random_int/long
> random: convert get_random_int/long into get_random_u32/u64
>
> Stephan Mueller (1):
> random: remove stale maybe_reseed_primary_crng
>
> Stephan Müller (3):
> random: remove stale urandom_init_wait
> random: remove variable limit
> random: fix comment for unused random_min_urandom_seed
>
> drivers/char/random.c | 129 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------------------------------
> include/linux/random.h | 18 ++++++++++---
> init/main.c | 1 -
> 3 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)
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