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SubjectRe: early x86 unseeded randomness
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 04:42:47PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> I'm not saying it's a replacement for the run time random generator, but
> it's exceptionally good and reasonably fast for the early boot
> randomization.

... which suffices our purposes. It's not like we're going to generate
long-term key pairs with it.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.

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