[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH RFC 0/5] ath79: add micro non-physical true RNG based on timing jitter

[Petr Štetiar]

Stephan Müller <smueller at chronox.de> [2019-05-25 21:42:19]:

Hi,

> If you are interested, I wrote a complete replacement implementation of the 
> current /dev/random or /dev/urandom available at [2]. It uses the in-kernel 
> Jitter RNG, it has pluggable PRNGs and other logic relevant for, say, FIPS 
> 140-2. This implementation would not require you to have your separate user 
> space entropy daemon that is discussed here. 

the main reason for urngd was size, because I plan to have it included in all
default firmware images, even for tiny devices with 4MiB of flash space. The
kernel machinery is more heavy as it have more features.

> Yet, this code was rejected.

could you please point me to that email thread? What's your plan now? Do you
simply plan to maintain it as out of tree kernel module forever or do you plan
to eventually address the comments leading to the reject and try it again
later?

Thanks a lot for your great work!

> [1] http://www.chronox.de/libkcapi.html
> [2] http://www.chronox.de/lrng.html

Cheers,

Petr

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