On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:48 PM, James A. Donald <jam...@echeque.com> 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.
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