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SubjectRe: Hashed pointer issues
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On 04/30/2018 10:01 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 9:57 AM Linus Torvalds <
> torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>> Although in *practice* we'd have tons of entropy on any modern development
>> CPU too, since any new hardware will have the hardware random number
>> generation. Some overly cautious person might not trust it, of course.
>
> In fact, maybe that's the right policy. Avoid a boot-time parameter by just
> saying
>
> "if you have hardware random number generation, we can fill entropy
> immediately"
>
> No kernel command line needed in practice any more. That's assuming any
> kernel developer will have an IvyBridge or newer.

any paid kernel developer :)

>
> The "I don't trust my hardware" people can still disable that with
> "nordrand".
>
> Hmm?


--
~Randy

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