On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:51:35 CDT, rholgstad said: > Linus doesn't care about security No, he actually *does* care about security - he's just pf the opinion that security fixes don't automatically rate a 'ZOMG! PWNED!' flag on them like certain *BSD variants think. He thinks that sticking a big SECURITY PATCH tag on a fix tends to make people cherry-pick and install just those fixes - even though the patch they *didn't* install that fixes a system crash or a silent data corruption is actually more critical. Your chances of getting it accepted improve greatly if you have a nice writeup of *why* the patch is a good idea - summarize the current state, explain how the new version works, list what attacks it minimizes. Oh - and I *guarantee* that somebody will make a (quite valid) issue about the drain on the /dev/random entropy pool if you're using that as your (possibly indirect) source of random bits. You may want to make sure that you have either Kconfig magic for compile time selection, and/or a /sys file or something for runtime tweaking.
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