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Message-ID: <13041.1447095477@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2015 13:57:57 -0500
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
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
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....
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