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author | Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> | 2015-05-25 16:09:59 +0300 |
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committer | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2015-05-27 12:51:53 +0300 |
commit | b8ec5ba42c4a3854e27c44e697d9b4f0b84b32bb (patch) | |
tree | 45522a56a48f8391f925689f78333a5344977a75 /crypto/jitterentropy.c | |
parent | 4c7879907eddd5b3ec09489bc980aab4f44e38dd (diff) | |
download | linux-b8ec5ba42c4a3854e27c44e697d9b4f0b84b32bb.tar.xz |
crypto: drbg - use Jitter RNG to obtain seed
During initialization, the DRBG now tries to allocate a handle of the
Jitter RNG. If such a Jitter RNG is available during seeding, the DRBG
pulls the required entropy/nonce string from get_random_bytes and
concatenates it with a string of equal size from the Jitter RNG. That
combined string is now the seed for the DRBG.
Written differently, the initial seed of the DRBG is now:
get_random_bytes(entropy/nonce) || jitterentropy (entropy/nonce)
If the Jitter RNG is not available, the DRBG only seeds from
get_random_bytes.
CC: Andreas Steffen <andreas.steffen@strongswan.org>
CC: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
CC: Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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