Re: [DISCUSSION PATCH 00/41] random: possible ways towards NIST SP800-90B compliance

[Stephan Mueller]

Am Freitag, 2. Oktober 2020, 15:15:55 CEST schrieb Willy Tarreau:

Hi Willy,

> > And this is all ???
> 
> Possibly a lot of people got used to seeing the numerous versions
> and are less attentive to new series, it's possible that your message
> will wake everyone up.

I think that points to my patch series. My patch series which provide a 
complete separate, API and ABI compliant drop in replacement of /dev/random, 
nobody from the gatekeepers cared to even answer. It would not touch the 
existing code.

After waiting some time without changing the code (e.g. after Andi Lutomirski 
commented), I got no answer at all from the gatekeepers, not even any 
indication in what direction I should move if something was not desired in the 
patch series.

Thus I continued adding the features that I think are necessary and for which 
I received comments from mathematicians. What else should I do?

With the patch set v35 of my patch series, I see all my goals finally 
achieved at I expect the code to be stable from here on. The last one was the 
hardest: to get rid of all non-cryptographic conditioning operations and yet 
retain performance en par or even superior to the existing /dev/random 
implementation.

Ciao
Stephan