<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 at 12:14, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org">talk@gtalug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Here's the commit that lets systemd survive the AMD rdrand bug.  The<br>
comments are interesting too.<br>
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<<a href="https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/12536/commits/1c53d4a070edbec8ad2d384ba0014d0eb6bae077" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/12536/commits/1c53d4a070edbec8ad2d384ba0014d0eb6bae077</a>><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This sure seems to point at rdrand being a scary feature to consider using.</div><div><br></div><div>I imagine that it would be better to access /dev/urandom or /dev/random, and have those facilities mix rdrand in somewhat, if possible.<br></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the<br>question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"<br></div></div>