Linux 3.14 Kernel Released 132
An anonymous reader writes "The Linux 3.14 "Shuffling Zombie Juror" kernel has been released. Significant improvements to Linux 3.14 include the mainlining of SCHED_DEADLINE, stable support for Intel Broadwell CPU graphics, Xen PVH support, stable support for ZRAM, and many other additions. There's also a tentative feature list on KernelNewbies.org."
Re:The Intel Broadwell CPU (Score:4, Informative)
The Intel Broadwell CPU has got a machine code pseudo random number generator in it's extended instruction set! Immense! Gimme Gimme Gimme ...
And what's more the pseudo random number generator is NSA approved [wikipedia.org].
No. In designing it, I plotted a path around the obvious back doors in SP800-90 and FIPS140-2. I don't think the part of the NSA that likes weak RNGs likes that one. The obvious back doors being the Dual-EC-DRBG and FIPS140-2 section 4.9.2, which I call the FIPS entropy destroyer.
The reseeding 2 million times a second thing is an effective defense against a class of hypothetical attacks which wouldn't work anyway.
It is FIPS compliant, but we won't be claiming FIPS certification until it is actually FIPS certified.