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For non-cryptographic applications, a PRNG like xorshift reseeded by a few bits from an oscillator might be enough. As I understand it, the reason they don't u
by eternityforest 3y ago
For non-cryptographic applications, a PRNG like xorshift reseeded by a few bits from an oscillator might be enough.
As I understand it, the reason they don't use on-chip RNGs by themselves isn't due to lack of entropy, it's because people don't trust them not to put a backdoor on the chips or to have some kind of bug.
Intel has https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDRAND https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDRAND but almost all chips seem to now have some kind of RNG.