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Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 19:02:24 +0000
From: Jason Cooper <kernel-hardening@...edaemon.net>
To: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
PaX Team <pageexec@...email.hu>,
Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>,
Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Theodore Tso <tytso@...gle.com>,
Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
Subject: Re: Re: Proposal for kernel self protection
features
Hey Valdis,
On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 01:57:57PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:28:32 +0000, Jason Cooper said:
> > I had a proposal a while back (can't find atm, sorry) to have the
> > bootloader load the random-seed into RAM ...
>
> It's *easy* to come up with an API to hand the kernel 64 or 128 bits of
> random to kick things off.
>
> The *hard* part is finding 64 or so bits of trustable random to hand to
> the kernel....
/var/lib/misc/random-seed has served that role for years, I'm only
advocating loading it earlier in the boot process. It's *much* harder
to guess the state of random-seed than the dtb or mac address(es)...
thx,
Jason.
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