On 2 November 2016 at 10:53, Dan McDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > One could add another RNG provider using CPU features, but given recent > revelations about the some of Intel ones, I'm not so sure how good of an idea > that might be.
In general, as long as we're combining _multiple_ potentially untrustworthy but independent sources, and using them only to occasionally _reseed_ a high quality PRNG rather than directly using the "random" output, we should be safe. -- Joshua M. Clulow UNIX Admin/Developer http://blog.sysmgr.org _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss
