Re: [Trisquel-users] Is RdRand in Linux-Libre?

2013-09-12 Thread foxhoundmsx
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[Trisquel-users] Is RdRand in Linux-Libre?

2013-09-12 Thread foxhoundmsx
There's a discussion going around the internet about Intel possibly backdooring Linux with RdRand. "Two years ago Linus overrode a decision by the maintainer of /dev/random and made a decision to include a patch by Intel which would make Linux rely blindly on output from RdRand (an implemen