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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] random: addu a config option to trust the CPU's hwrng
    Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

    > For those people who are super paranoid and want a "true
    > random number generator" (and the meaning of that is hazy) because a
    > CRNG is Not Enough, my recommendation these days is that they get
    > something like an open hardware RNG solution, such as ChaosKey from
    > Altus Metrum[1].
    >
    > [1] https://altusmetrum.org/ChaosKey/

    Yes & one of those can also solve any difficulty with random(4) at
    startup. Another alternative, perhaps easier on some systems, is
    Denker's Turbid trng:
    https://www.av8n.com/turbid/paper/turbid.htm

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