[PATCH] random: use the architectural HWRNG for the SHA's IV in extract_buf()

2013-12-17 Thread Theodore Ts'o
To help assuage the fears of those who think the NSA can introduce a massive hack into the instruction decode and out of order execution engine in the CPU without hundreds of Intel engineers knowing about it (only one of which woud need to have the conscience and courage of Edward Snowden to spill

[PATCH] random: use the architectural HWRNG for the SHA's IV in extract_buf()

2013-12-17 Thread Theodore Ts'o
To help assuage the fears of those who think the NSA can introduce a massive hack into the instruction decode and out of order execution engine in the CPU without hundreds of Intel engineers knowing about it (only one of which woud need to have the conscience and courage of Edward Snowden to spill