From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] hwrng: dev-random: always use /dev/urandom
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 09:07:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191023070709.dqsg5msny5tyi7e4@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191021122047.12204-1-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 02:20:46PM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> /dev/random can block long after boot time. It seems there's a consensus
> that /dev/urandom is safe to use except for very early boot, which isn't
> when barebox sandbox is usually run. To make the HWRNG more useful,
> always use /dev/urandom.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
> ---
> arch/sandbox/board/dev-random.c | 7 +------
> arch/sandbox/mach-sandbox/include/mach/linux.h | 1 -
> drivers/hw_random/Kconfig | 6 +++---
> 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
Applied, thanks
Sascha
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2019-10-21 12:20 Ahmad Fatoum
2019-10-21 12:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] commands: passwd: suggest sandbox for offline password generation Ahmad Fatoum
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