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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] random: Add and use arch_get_rng_seed
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 14:08:02 -0700
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On 07/22/2014 02:04 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> Just to check: do you mean the RDRAND is very likely to work (i.e.
> arch_get_random_long will return true) or that RDRAND will actually
> reseed several times during initialization?
> 

I mean that RDRAND will actually reseed several times during
initialization.  The documented architectural limit is actually
extremely conservative.

Either way, it isn't really different from seeding from a VM hosts
/dev/urandom...

	-hpa