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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] random,x86: Add arch_get_slow_rng_u64
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 13:32:30 -0400
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 10:12:27AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
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> Unless I'm reading the code wrong, the prandom_reseed_late call can
> happen after userspace is running.

But there is also the prandom_reseed() call, which happens early.

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