9 Jul
2019
9 Jul
'19
9:23 a.m.
On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 at 12:14, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Here's the commit that lets systemd survive the AMD rdrand bug. The comments are interesting too.
< https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/12536/commits/1c53d4a070edbec8ad2d38...
This sure seems to point at rdrand being a scary feature to consider using. I imagine that it would be better to access /dev/urandom or /dev/random, and have those facilities mix rdrand in somewhat, if possible. -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"