On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 at 12:14, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Here's the commit that lets systemd survive the AMD rdrand bug.  The
> comments are interesting too.
>
> <
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/12536/commits/1c53d4a070edbec8ad2d384ba0014d0eb6bae077
> >
>

This sure seems to point at rdrand being a scary feature to consider using.

I imagine that it would be better to access /dev/urandom or /dev/random,
and have those facilities mix rdrand in somewhat, if possible.
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