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07-Dec-2013 |
gjb |
- Copy stable/10 (r259064) to releng/10.0 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle. - Update __FreeBSD_version [1] - Set branch name to -RC1
[1] 10.0-CURRENT __FreeBSD_version value ended at '55', so start releng/10.0 at '100' so the branch is started with a value ending in zero.
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256281 |
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10-Oct-2013 |
gjb |
Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.
Approved by: re (implicit) Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
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07-Sep-2013 |
markm |
Bring in some behind-the-scenes development, mainly By Arthur Mesh, the rest by me.
o Namespace cleanup; the Yarrow name is now restricted to where it really applies; this is in anticipation of being augmented or replaced by Fortuna in the future. Fortuna is mentioned, but behind #if logic, and is ignorable for now.
o The harvest queue is pulled out into its own modules.
o Entropy harvesting is emproved, both by being made more conservative, and by separating (a bit!) the sources. Available entropy crumbs are marginally improved.
o Selection of sources is made clearer. With recent revelations, this will receive more work in the weeks and months to come.
Submitted by: Arthur Mesh (partly) <arthurmesh@gmail.com>
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11-Mar-2005 |
ume |
stop including rijndael-api-fst.h from rijndael.h. this is required to integrate opencrypto into crypto.
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09-Apr-2004 |
markm |
Reorganise the entropy device so that high-yield entropy sources can more easily be used INSTEAD OF the hard-working Yarrow. The only hardware source used at this point is the one inside the VIA C3 Nehemiah (Stepping 3 and above) CPU. More sources will be added in due course. Contributions welcome!
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17-Nov-2003 |
markm |
Overhaul the entropy device:
o Each source gets its own queue, which is a FIFO, not a ring buffer. The FIFOs are implemented with the sys/queue.h macros. The separation is so that a low entropy/high rate source can't swamp the harvester with low-grade entropy and destroy the reseeds.
o Each FIFO is limited to 256 (set as a macro, so adjustable) events queueable. Full FIFOs are ignored by the harvester. This is to prevent memory wastage, and helps to keep the kernel thread CPU usage within reasonable limits.
o There is no need to break up the event harvesting into ${burst} sized chunks, so retire that feature.
o Break the device away from its roots with the memory device, and allow it to get its major number automagically.
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24-Aug-2003 |
obrien |
Use __FBSDID(). Also some minor style cleanups.
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103763 |
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21-Sep-2002 |
markm |
No functional change. Fix comments and whitespace.
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15-Jul-2002 |
markm |
Upgrade the random device to use a "real" hash instead of building one out of a block cipher. This has 2 advantages: 1) The code is _much_ simpler 2) We aren't committing our security to one algorithm (much as we may think we trust AES).
While I'm here, make an explicit reseed do a slow reseed instead of a fast; this is in line with what the original paper suggested.
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03-Mar-2002 |
markm |
Massive lint-inspired cleanup.
Remove unneeded includes. Deal with unused function arguments. Resolve a boatload of signed/unsigned imcompatabilities. Etc.
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10-Mar-2001 |
markm |
Very large makeover of the /dev/random driver.
o Separate the kernel stuff from the Yarrow algorithm. Yarrow is now well contained in one source file and one header.
o Replace the Blowfish-based crypto routines with Rijndael-based ones. (Rijndael is the new AES algorithm). The huge improvement in Rijndael's key-agility over Blowfish means that this is an extremely dramatic improvement in speed, and makes a heck of a difference in its (lack of) CPU load.
o Clean up the sysctl's. At BDE's prompting, I have gone back to static sysctls.
o Bug fixes. The streamlining of the crypto stuff enabled me to find and fix some bugs. DES also found a bug in the reseed routine which is fixed.
o Change the way reseeds clear "used" entropy. Previously, only the source(s) that caused a reseed were cleared. Now all sources in the relevant pool(s) are cleared.
o Code tidy-up. Mostly to make it (nearly) 80-column compliant.
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26-Nov-2000 |
markm |
Fix safety-net code. While technically a bug, I'm delighted to see that it has never (apparently) been invoked.
Submitted by: ache
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25-Nov-2000 |
markm |
Stop explicitly using nanotime(9) and use the new get_cyclecounter(9) call instead.
This makes a pretty dramatic difference to the amount of work that the harvester needs to do - it is much friendlier on the system. (80386 and 80486 class machines will notice little, as the new get_cyclecounter() call is a wrapper round nanotime(9) for them).
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14-Oct-2000 |
markm |
After some complaints about the dir names, the random device is now in dirs called sys/*/random/ instead of sys/*/randomdev/*.
Introduce blocking, but only at startup; the random device will block until the first reseed happens to prevent clients from using untrustworthy output.
Provide a read_random() call for the rest of the kernel so that the entropy device does not need to be present. This means that things like IPX no longer need to have "device random" hardcoded into thir kernel config. The downside is that read_random() will provide very poor output until the entropy device is loaded and reseeded. It is recommended that developers do NOT use the read_random() call; instead, they should use arc4random() which internally uses read_random().
Clean up the mutex and locking code a bit; this makes it possible to unload the module again.
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21-Sep-2000 |
markm |
Remove unneeded includes.
Submitted by: phk
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10-Sep-2000 |
markm |
Large upgrade to the entropy device; mainly inspired by feedback from many folk.
o The reseed process is now a kthread. With SMPng, kthreads are pre-emptive, so the annoying jerkiness of the mouse is gone.
o The data structures are protected by mutexes now, not splfoo()/splx().
o The cryptographic routines are broken out into their own subroutines. this facilitates review, and possible replacement if that is ever found necessary.
Thanks to: kris, green, peter, jasone, grog, jhb Forgotten to thank: You know who you are; no offense intended.
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