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Re:OpenBSD Will Get Unique Kernels on Each Reboot by awordnot on Thursday July 06, 2017 @05:00PM (#14713914)
Recent AMD and Intel systems with AES-NI provide a hardware RNG. Although as far as I was aware this is not used on OpenBSD for fear of hardware backdoors.
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Re:OpenBSD Will Get Unique Kernels on Each Reboot by Someone on Thursday July 06, 2017 @05:03PM (#14713941)
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RdRand and (same page) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RdRand#Reception for info on concerns about backdrops.
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