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SubjectRe: [PATCH,RFC] random: collect cpu randomness
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 09:54:22PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
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> Can we be sure we don't leak information this way? Just being
> paranoid...

The register information will be mixed pretty thoroughly by the time
it gets to the entropy pool, and then we don't ever expose the entropy
pool to userspace. So no, I don't think we need to worry about
leaking information.

- Ted


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