On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 12:50, Alexey Suslikov wrote: > I have a question. > > Having no interrupt (and such) entropy means less entropy. > > From other hand, there are lot of speculations about some > hardware entropy sources are suspected (proven?) bad (or > intentionally hijacked?). > > So question here is, does moving random generation closer > to hardware paves a way to more predictable numbers?
The previous "random" pid algorithm for early processes was previous pid + 1. Even the backdoor in your CPU can do better than that... The operation of the random number device hasn't changed, except that its initial seed has changed to not be all zero.
