On 04/30/2018 10:01 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 9:57 AM Linus Torvalds < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Although in *practice* we'd have tons of entropy on any modern development >> CPU too, since any new hardware will have the hardware random number >> generation. Some overly cautious person might not trust it, of course. > > In fact, maybe that's the right policy. Avoid a boot-time parameter by just > saying > > "if you have hardware random number generation, we can fill entropy > immediately" > > No kernel command line needed in practice any more. That's assuming any > kernel developer will have an IvyBridge or newer.
any paid kernel developer :) > > The "I don't trust my hardware" people can still disable that with > "nordrand". > > Hmm? -- ~Randy
