Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:12 PM Theodore Y. wrote:
I suspect you can't hit it in practice on Intel systems, but maybe you can on others. And maybe future other architectures might be different yet.
yet.
But rdrand has the potential of being pretty slow, and it's almost certainly not worth continuing if it stopped giving us data. Linus
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_maybe_ you could exhaust the HW entropy).I suspect you can't hit it in practice on Intel systems, but maybe you can on others. And maybe future other architectures might be different yet.
yet.
But rdrand has the potential of being pretty slow, and it's almost certainly not worth continuing if it stopped giving us data. Linus
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