On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 08:02:33AM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Matt Mackall a ?crit :
> >On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 07:17:58PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >>Alan Cox a ?crit :
> >>>>No matter what you consider as being better, changing a 12 years old
> >>>>and widely used userspace interface like /dev/urandom is simply not an
> >>>>option.
> >>>>
> >>>Fixing it to be more efficient in its use of entropy and also fixing the
> >>>fact its not actually a good random number source would be worth looking
> >>>at however.
> >>>
> >>Yes, since current behavior on network irq is very pessimistic.
> >
> >No, it's very optimistic. The network should not be trusted.
>
> You keep saying that. I am refering to your previous attempts last year to
> remove net drivers from sources of entropy. No real changes were done.
Dave and I are both a bit stubborn on this point. I've been meaning to
respin those patches..
> If the network should not be trusted, then a patch should make sure network
> interrupts feed /dev/urandom but not /dev/random at all. (ie not calling
> credit_entropy_store() at all)
Yes. My plan is to change the interface from SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM to
add_network_entropy. The SA_SAMPLE_RANDOM interface sucks because it
doesn't tell the core what kind of source it's dealing with.
> There is a big difference on get_cycles() and jiffies. You should try to
> measure it on a typical x86_64 platform.
I'm well aware of that. We'd use get_cycles() exclusively, but it
returns zero on lots of platforms. We used to use sched_clock(), I
can't remember why that got changed.
> >Also, for future reference, patches for /dev/random go through me, not
> >through Dave.
>
> Why ? David is the network maintainer, and he was the one who rejected your
> previous patches.
Because I'm the /dev/random maintainer and it's considered the polite
thing to do, damnit.
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