Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] random,x86: Add arch_get_slow_rng_u64

[H. Peter Anvin]

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


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