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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v4 1/1] random: WARN on large getrandom() waits and
 introduce getrandom2()
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 21:17:47 +0100
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On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 12:51:12PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So we absolutely _will_ come up with some way 0 ends the wait. Whether
> it's _just_ a timeout, or whether it's jitter-entropy or whatever, it
> will happen.

FWIW, Zircon uses the jitter entropy generator to seed the CRNG and 
documented their findings in 
https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/zircon/jitterentropy/config-basic .
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org