On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 08:19:30PM -0500, Paul Wouters wrote: > On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > >other than providing other sources of entropy, and long-term this is > >going to be fixed once everyone's moved to Ivy Bridge and has an > >unprivileged instruction to hand out entropy. > > uhm I know intel really wants us to use it directly and trust them, but > we're going to run it through the kernel right? And just expose it via > /dev/random to userland yes?
rngd calls rdrand and seeds /dev/random with it. The kernel doesn't use rdrand directly, but does have some setup code to ensure that it's reseeded before userspace starts. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
