Re: FYI/RFC: early-rng-init-tools
Hi Philipp,
>FTR this is supposedly fixed on the main architectures featuring an RNG
>in the CPU by linux 4.19.20-1, which enabled RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. Which Ben
that’s what I referred to by…
>>• it does not use/add CPU RNG output where present
>> ‣ though Linux can now do that itself, some command-line flag…
… but that only helps if the CPU has such instructions, and you
trust them sufficiently.
My package is useful for a lot of the other cases.
bye,
//mirabilos
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obsess. or you'll forget why you love it in the first place.
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