On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:23:08AM -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > > > Ok, that seems like a reasonable idea. new patch below > > Change Notes: > > > > 1) Moved fips_enabled flag into its own header, included in all the > > appropriate > > places > > > > 2) removed flags field from entropy store, keying continuous test on the > > non-null status of the last_data pointer > > > > > > FIPS-140 requires that all random number generators implement continuous > > self > > tests in which each extracted block of data is compared against the last > > block > > for repetition. The ansi_cprng implements such a test, but it would be > > nice if > > the hw rng's did the same thing. Obviously its not something thats always > > needed, but it seems like it would be a nice feature to have on occasion. > > I've > > written the below patch which allows individual entropy stores to be > > flagged as > > desiring a continuous test to be run on them as is extracted. By default > > this > > option is off, but is enabled in the event that fips mode is selected during > > bootup. > > > > Neil > > > > Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhor...@tuxdriver.com> > > > Ping, I don't see that this got picked up in the crypto tree. Are there > subsequent objections?
Matt, are you OK with me picking this up or do you want to pick it up? Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
