Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Sep 2019 21:17:47 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC v4 1/1] random: WARN on large getrandom() waits and introduce getrandom2() |
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On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 12:51:12PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So we absolutely _will_ come up with some way 0 ends the wait. Whether > it's _just_ a timeout, or whether it's jitter-entropy or whatever, it > will happen.
FWIW, Zircon uses the jitter entropy generator to seed the CRNG and documented their findings in https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/zircon/jitterentropy/config-basic . -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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