Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753465AbaGQEzq (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2014 00:55:46 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:48977 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753160AbaGQEzd (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2014 00:55:33 -0400 Message-ID: <53C75733.8060507@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 21:55:15 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Lutomirski CC: Raghavendra K T , Paolo Bonzini , X86 ML , Bandan Das , Gleb Natapov , kvm list , "Theodore Ts'o" , Srivatsa Vaddagiri , Daniel Borkmann , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Kees Cook Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] random,x86: Add arch_get_slow_rng_u64 References: <5778e65d5ca52bebbaa023e177d863e44f098e96.1405546879.git.luto@amacapital.net> <53C6F5A9.80400@zytor.com> <53C703ED.2010605@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/16/2014 05:03 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> >> prandom is exactly the opposite; it is designed for when we need >> possibly low quality random numbers very quickly. RDRAND is actually >> too slow. > > I meant that prandom isn't using rdrand for early seeding. > We should probably fix that. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/