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/1c53d4a070edbec8ad2d384ba0014d0eb6bae077>

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?"