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Re:Fixing Getrandom() by loeg on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:23PM (#21130845)
If you can't trust your cloud provider to give you good boot time entropy you shouldn't host your VMs on them at all.
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Re:Fixing Getrandom() by viraptor on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:26PM (#21130873)
Sure. Same applies to CPUs and rdrand... yet here we are.
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Re:Fixing Getrandom() by loeg on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @06:12PM (#21131328)
Not all CPUs have rdrand? Yes, trust it on x86 when it is present. Otherwise... Linux runs on a lot of arch that are not x86.

I agree that the LKML fear-mongering over RDRAND is doing more harm than good.

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