Subject: Re: [PATCH] [resend] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM

From: Alan Cox <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 11:49:41 +0100

On Wed, 28 May 2008 23:23:26 -0700 (PDT)
Chris Peterson <[email-masked]> wrote:

> 
> Remove network drivers' last few uses of theoretically-exploitable network 
> entropy. Only 12 net drivers are affected. Headless boxes should use a 
> more secure source of entropy, such as the userspace daemons rngd, clrngd, 
> egd, audio_entropyd, and/or video_entroyd.
> 
> I'm also thinking about writing a "Frankenstein" daemon that combines the 
> entropy-collecting algorithms from those daemons into one. Whereas rngd 
> only uses /dev/hw_random, my hypothetical daemon would make a best effort 
> attempt: use /dev/hw_random if it exists, otherwise fallback (or use in 
> addition) the other entropy sources.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Peterson <[email-masked]>

Acked-by: Alan Cox <[email-masked]>