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authorStephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>2015-05-25 13:09:14 (GMT)
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2015-05-27 09:51:53 (GMT)
commit3d6a5f75d1340539dcdcec4609761fa4b836a1f2 (patch)
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crypto: drbg - prepare for async seeding
In order to prepare for the addition of the asynchronous seeding call, the invocation of seeding the DRBG is moved out into a helper function. In addition, a block of memory is allocated during initialization time that will be used as a scratchpad for obtaining entropy. That scratchpad is used for the initial seeding operation as well as by the asynchronous seeding call. The memory must be zeroized every time the DRBG seeding call succeeds to avoid entropy data lingering in memory. CC: Andreas Steffen <andreas.steffen@strongswan.org> CC: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> CC: Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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