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Using jitter as an entropy source also came up in the recent discussions around Linux getrandom(2) blocking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21152552 http

• CiPHPerCoder 7y ago
  Whether or not the kernel should be doing this is one issue, but VeraCrypt should be using whatever the kernel provides rather than rolling their own.
  • csande17 7y ago
    Maybe they need their own random number generator for the pre-boot decryption process? (Although come to think of it, I guess you only really need random numbers to generate the key when encrypting.)