On 07/22/2014 02:04 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> Just to check: do you mean the RDRAND is very likely to work (i.e.
> arch_get_random_long will return true) or that RDRAND will actually
> reseed several times during initialization?
>
I mean that RDRAND will actually reseed several times during
initialization. The documented architectural limit is actually
extremely conservative.
Either way, it isn't really different from seeding from a VM hosts
/dev/urandom...
-hpa
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