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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 21:55:15 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> CC: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, Bandan Das <bsd@...hat.com>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>, kvm list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] random,x86: Add arch_get_slow_rng_u64 On 07/16/2014 05:03 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> >> prandom is exactly the opposite; it is designed for when we need >> possibly low quality random numbers very quickly. RDRAND is actually >> too slow. > > I meant that prandom isn't using rdrand for early seeding. > We should probably fix that. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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