Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jul 2014 14:08:02 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] random: Add and use arch_get_rng_seed |
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On 07/22/2014 02:04 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > Just to check: do you mean the RDRAND is very likely to work (i.e. > arch_get_random_long will return true) or that RDRAND will actually > reseed several times during initialization? >
I mean that RDRAND will actually reseed several times during initialization. The documented architectural limit is actually extremely conservative.
Either way, it isn't really different from seeding from a VM hosts /dev/urandom...
-hpa
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