On Tue 2015-06-23 23:47:33, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 23. Juni 2015, 22:44:11 schrieb Pavel Machek:
>
> Hi Pavel,
>
> > On Mon 2015-05-18 18:25:25, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> > > Make the threshold at which the output entropy pools are considered to
> > > be initialized configurable via
Am Dienstag, 23. Juni 2015, 22:44:11 schrieb Pavel Machek:
Hi Pavel,
> On Mon 2015-05-18 18:25:25, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> > Make the threshold at which the output entropy pools are considered to
> > be initialized configurable via a kernel command line option. The
> > current integer value of 1
On Mon 2015-05-18 18:25:25, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> Make the threshold at which the output entropy pools are considered to
> be initialized configurable via a kernel command line option. The
> current integer value of 128 bits is a good default value. However, some
> user groups may want to use di
Am Mittwoch, 20. Mai 2015, 11:06:42 schrieb Theodore Ts'o:
Hi Theodore,
As a side note to this discussion, may I ask why entropy_total is used for
checking against the threshold value and not entropy_count?
The reason for my question is the following: until a DRNG (in the worst case,
nonblocki
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Stephan Mueller wrote:
>>
>> I hear more and more discussions about recommendations to use AES 256 and not
>> AES 128.
Or perhaps other ciphers with 256-bit keys. Salsa, ChaCha and several of
the Caesar candidates support those.
>> These kin
