On 2013-07-13 12:20 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
It's worth noting that the maintainer of record (me) for the Linux RNG
quit the project about two years ago precisely because Linus decided
to include a patch from Intel to allow their unauditable RdRand to
bypass the entropy pool over my strenuous objections.
Is there a plausible rationale for bypassing the entropy pool?
How unauditable is RdRand?
Is RdRand unauditable because it uses magic instructions that do
unknowable things? Is it designed to actively resist audit? Has Intel
gone out of its way to prevent you from knowing how good their true
random generation is?
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