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    crypto: drbg - reseed often if seedsource is degraded · 42ea507f
    Stephan Mueller authored
    As required by SP800-90A, the DRBG implements are reseeding threshold.
    This threshold is at 2**48 (64 bit) and 2**32 bit (32 bit) as
    implemented in drbg_max_requests.
    
    With the recently introduced changes, the DRBG is now always used as a
    stdrng which is initialized very early in the boot cycle. To ensure that
    sufficient entropy is present, the Jitter RNG is added to even provide
    entropy at early boot time.
    
    However, the 2nd seed source, the nonblocking pool, is usually
    degraded at that time. Therefore, the DRBG is seeded with the Jitter RNG
    (which I believe contains good entropy, which however is questioned by
    others) and is seeded with a degradded nonblocking pool. This seed is
    now used for quasi the lifetime of the system (2**48 requests is a lot).
    
    The patch now changes the reseed threshold as follows: up until the time
    the DRBG obtains a seed from a fully iniitialized nonblocking pool, the
    reseeding threshold is lowered such that the DRBG is forced to reseed
    itself resonably often. Once it obtains the seed from a fully
    initialized nonblocking pool, the reseed threshold is set to the value
    required by SP800-90A.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarStephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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