New /dev/random Implementation Hits 35th Revision

[schmidtbag]

That's not how the world works, though. We have SSL encryption to worry about now.

Aren't the random seeds only generated on the server side?

[George99]

How hard could it be to just get a simple random number?

In fact it can be pretty simple and straight forward: https://xkcd.com/221/

[schmidtbag]

In fact it can be pretty simple and straight forward: https://xkcd.com/221/

Hahaha what a perfect reference.

[tchiwam]

anyone did a distribution of that rng ?

[F.Ultra]

Aren't the random seeds only generated on the server side?

if that where the case then TLS would have been completely broken security wise. Random nonces are needed from both sides during the handshake for anything remotely secure.

[abott]

It will be eventually merged because without it LRNG does not meet new FIPS requirements in next year summer.

That's not how the Linux kernel works. It'll be merged when it's ready. FIPS better learn how to roll their own kernel.