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He acknowledges this: "This RNG construction certainly isn't new but I don't recall ever hearing a good name for it ..." However many other kernels don't do th
by jfindley 9y ago
He acknowledges this: "This RNG construction certainly isn't new but I don't recall ever hearing a good name for it ..."
However many other kernels don't do this, and I think this article is written to convince non-OpenBSD people to consider this. It's also a "further details of supercop" article, but I'm mostly reading this as a continuing of djb's long-standing criticism of the Linux PRNG (he's unhappy that it uses Intel's RDRAND for example).