Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] random,x86: Add arch_get_slow_rng_u64

H. Peter Anvin
2014-07-17T04:55:33Z

On 07/16/2014 05:03 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>
>> prandom is exactly the opposite; it is designed for when we need
>> possibly low quality random numbers very quickly. RDRAND is actually
>> too slow.
>
> I meant that prandom isn't using rdrand for early seeding.
>

We should probably fix that.

-hpa