Linux 4.2 Adds New Public Key Encryption API, Jitter RNG

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 4.2 Adds New Public Key Encryption API, Jitter RNG

The latest subsystem update worth commenting on for the Linux 4.2 merge window are the crypto(graphy) updates with this new kernel version...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.2-Crypto-Akcipher-PKE

[Marc Driftmeyer]

What's really bad about click bait articles like this is they provide zero education, but a ton of acronyms.

Jitter based RNG: http://www.chronox.de/jent/doc/CPU-Jitter-NPTRNG.html

Stephan M?ller's paper from the Linux Kernel: https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2014/ols2014-mueller.pdf

Putting in links to papers would enhance your professionalism and not expand your reputation as nothing but a site full of self-reference and very little substance.

[Lennie]

What's really bad about click bait articles like this is they provide zero education, but a ton of acronyms.

Jitter based RNG: http://www.chronox.de/jent/doc/CPU-Jitter-NPTRNG.html

Stephan M?ller's paper from the Linux Kernel: https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2014/ols2014-mueller.pdf

Putting in links to papers would enhance your professionalism and not expand your reputation as nothing but a site full of self-reference and very little substance.

At first glance I thought: similar to haveged and it does look quiet a bit like it.

[TheBlackCat]

At first glance I thought: similar to haveged and it does look quiet a bit like it.

From what I can tell it seems like a superset of haveged. haveged looks at the execution time of a piece of code, which is good from a userland perspective. This approach uses more low-level processor status information, which probably really needs to be implemented at the kernel level.

[nanonyme]

Requiring compiler optimizations to be disabled for the generator to work sounds like the recipe for disaster to me. Sooner or later some simple person enables them