From: "Mattias Rönnblom" <mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] eal: make rte_rand() MT safe
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2019 07:52:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <94e2cd48-5ef2-bb54-4512-35c6a1c710f8@ericsson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190405135030.09c5291a@shemminger-XPS-13-9360>
On 2019-04-05 22:50, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>
> Read the discussion link about ARC4. http://www.pcg-random.org/
>
> As a general-purpose PRNG, it is rather slow, and it is also slow by
> the standards of modern cryptographic PRNGs and is also considered too
> weak to use for cryptographic purposes. It is, however, of historical
> interest and can be useful in testing to see how sensitive a algorithms
> are to PRNG speed.
>
> Using ARC4 replaces a one legacy one with another.
>
Yes, I agree.
After looking at the code, I learned that - seemingly - most
arc4random() implementations aren't using ARC4, but ChaCha.
Would it be unfortunate from a export control point of view to include
cipher-based random generators in DPDK?
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2019-04-05 13:45 Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-05 13:45 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-05 13:51 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-05 13:51 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-05 14:28 ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-05 14:28 ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-05 14:56 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-05 14:56 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-05 16:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-05 16:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-05 18:04 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-05 18:04 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-05 20:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-05 20:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-06 5:52 ` Mattias Rönnblom [this message]
2019-04-06 5:52 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-08 12:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 1/3] Replace lrand48-based rte_rand with LFSR generator Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-08 12:30 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-08 12:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 2/3] Add 32-bit version of rte_rand Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-08 12:30 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-08 12:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 3/3] Introduce random generator functions with upper bound Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-08 12:30 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-08 12:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 1/3] Replace lrand48-based rte_rand with LFSR generator Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-08 12:47 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-19 21:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 0/2] Pseudo-number generation improvements Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-19 21:21 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-19 21:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 1/2] eal: replace libc-based random number generation with LFSR Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-19 21:21 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-22 11:34 ` Neil Horman
2019-04-22 11:34 ` Neil Horman
2019-04-22 14:49 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-22 14:49 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-22 15:52 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-22 15:52 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-22 17:44 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-22 17:44 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-23 11:33 ` Neil Horman
2019-04-23 11:33 ` Neil Horman
2019-04-23 17:13 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-23 17:13 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-24 11:37 ` Neil Horman
2019-04-24 11:37 ` Neil Horman
2019-04-23 15:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-23 15:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-23 17:17 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-23 17:17 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-24 7:52 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-24 7:52 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-24 12:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v3 0/2] Pseudo-random number generation improvements Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-24 12:33 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-24 12:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v3 1/2] eal: replace libc-based random number generation with LFSR Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-24 12:33 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-08 20:12 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-05-08 20:12 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-05-08 20:30 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-08 20:30 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-09 1:10 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-05-09 1:10 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-05-14 9:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/6] Pseudo-random number generation improvements Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-14 9:20 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-14 9:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/6] eal: replace libc-based random number generation with LFSR Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-14 9:20 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-14 9:32 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-14 9:32 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-14 14:16 ` Neil Horman
2019-05-14 14:16 ` Neil Horman
2019-05-14 14:53 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-14 14:53 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-17 19:27 ` Neil Horman
2019-05-17 20:57 ` Bruce Richardson
2019-05-17 21:10 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-19 18:32 ` Neil Horman
2019-05-14 15:27 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-05-14 15:27 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-05-14 9:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/6] eal: add pseudo-random number generation performance test Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-14 9:20 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-14 9:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/6] eal: improve entropy for initial PRNG seed Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-14 9:20 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-14 9:36 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-14 9:36 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-14 9:39 ` Bruce Richardson
2019-05-14 9:39 ` Bruce Richardson
2019-05-14 11:58 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-14 11:58 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-14 9:37 ` Bruce Richardson
2019-05-14 9:37 ` Bruce Richardson
2019-05-14 9:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/6] eal: introduce random generator function with upper bound Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-14 9:20 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-14 9:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/6] eal: add bounded PRNG performance tests Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-14 9:20 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-14 9:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 6/6] eal: add pseudo-random number generation to MAINTAINERS Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-14 9:20 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-16 17:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/6] Pseudo-random number generation improvements Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-16 17:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/6] eal: replace libc-based random number generation with LFSR Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-16 17:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/6] eal: add pseudo-random number generation performance test Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-16 17:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/6] eal: improve entropy for initial PRNG seed Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-16 17:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/6] eal: introduce random generator function with upper bound Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-16 17:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/6] eal: add bounded PRNG performance tests Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-16 17:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/6] eal: add PRNG to MAINTAINERS and release notes Mattias Rönnblom
2019-05-16 20:35 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/6] Pseudo-random number generation improvements Bruce Richardson
2019-06-05 10:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 " Mattias Rönnblom
2019-06-05 10:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/6] eal: replace libc-based random number generation with LFSR Mattias Rönnblom
2019-06-05 10:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/6] eal: add pseudo-random number generation performance test Mattias Rönnblom
2019-06-27 21:23 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-06-28 8:20 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-06-05 10:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/6] eal: improve entropy for initial PRNG seed Mattias Rönnblom
2019-06-05 10:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/6] eal: introduce random generator function with upper bound Mattias Rönnblom
2019-06-05 10:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/6] eal: add bounded PRNG performance tests Mattias Rönnblom
2019-06-05 10:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 6/6] eal: add PRNG to MAINTAINERS and release notes Mattias Rönnblom
2019-06-27 21:27 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-06-28 8:17 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-06-15 12:23 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/6] Pseudo-random number generation improvements Mattias Rönnblom
2019-06-28 9:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/5] " Mattias Rönnblom
2019-06-28 9:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/5] eal: replace libc-based random number generation with LFSR Mattias Rönnblom
2019-06-28 9:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/5] eal: add pseudo-random number generation performance test Mattias Rönnblom
2019-06-28 9:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/5] eal: improve entropy for initial PRNG seed Mattias Rönnblom
2019-06-28 19:01 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-06-28 20:58 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-06-28 21:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: use 32-bit RDSEED to allow 32-bit x86 usage Mattias Rönnblom
2019-06-29 12:54 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-06-28 9:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 4/5] eal: introduce random generator function with upper bound Mattias Rönnblom
2019-06-28 9:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 5/5] eal: add bounded PRNG performance tests Mattias Rönnblom
2019-06-28 13:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/5] Pseudo-random number generation improvements Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-24 12:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v3 2/2] eal: introduce random generator function with upper bound Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-24 12:33 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-19 21:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 " Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-19 21:21 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-20 21:08 ` Wiles, Keith
2019-04-20 21:08 ` Wiles, Keith
2019-04-21 19:05 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-21 19:05 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-22 4:33 ` Wiles, Keith
2019-04-22 4:33 ` Wiles, Keith
2019-04-22 7:07 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-22 7:07 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2019-04-22 13:19 ` Wiles, Keith
2019-04-22 13:19 ` Wiles, Keith
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