On 2013-07-13 4:54 AM, Patrick Mylund Nielsen wrote:
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:48 PM, James A. Donald <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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?
Throughput? Not bypassing means having to wait until enough randomness
has been gathered from trusted sources.
Or maybe it's just trusting Intel and assuming that RDRAND provides
better randomness.
Often, when the computer boots up, it needs to do things that require
some true randomness. This is a potential disaster, therefore there
should be a non blocking wait for randomness.
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