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That's why Linux doesn't use the HW randomness by itself, it gathers entropy from lots of sources like peripheral timings, and hashes it all. If the crypto alg
by eternityforest 3y ago
That's why Linux doesn't use the HW randomness by itself, it gathers entropy from lots of sources like peripheral timings, and hashes it all.
If the crypto algorithms are broken it doesn't matter if the RNG is good, without good crypto there's not much you can do with randomness except OTP.