Thread (26 messages) 26 messages, 7 authors, 2021-04-12

Re: [PATCH net-next] [RESEND] wireguard: disable in FIPS mode

From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Date: 2021-04-09 18:30:02
Also in: netdev

On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 2:08 AM Hangbin Liu [off-list ref] wrote:
After offline discussion with Herbert, here is
what he said:

"""
This is not a problem in RHEL8 because the Crypto API RNG replaces /dev/random
in FIPS mode.
"""
So far as I can see, this isn't the case in the kernel sources I'm
reading? Maybe you're doing some userspace hack with CUSE? But at
least get_random_bytes doesn't behave this way...
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