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It wasn't that RDAND wasn't trusted as source of randomness in Linux. It wasn't trusted enough to replace the whole RNG chain - with entropy collection, seed ex
by JoachimS 4y ago
It wasn't that RDAND wasn't trusted as source of randomness in Linux. It wasn't trusted enough to replace the whole RNG chain - with entropy collection, seed extraction and DRBG/CSPRNG. Which to me was and is perfectly reasonable.
Replacing an open source chain that can be fed with entropy from several sources and mixed together, with a black box that is hard to inspect and trust.