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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] random: Don't overwrite CRNG state in crng_initialize()
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 07:47:25 +0100
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On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 08:31:26PM -0700, Alden Tondettar wrote:
> In short, the situation is:
> 
> A) No usable hardware RNG or arch_get_random() (or we don't trust it...)

Wait, why would you not trust arch_get_random()?  Is it broken somehow
on some arches?  If so, why not fix that as well?

thanks,

greg k-h