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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 10:41:19 +0200
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 7:06 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
> On 04/30/2018 10:01 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 9:57 AM Linus Torvalds <
>> torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Although in *practice* we'd have tons of entropy on any modern development
>>> CPU too, since any new hardware will have the hardware random number
>>> generation. Some overly cautious person might not trust it, of course.
>>
>> In fact, maybe that's the right policy. Avoid a boot-time parameter by just
>> saying
>>
>>   "if you have hardware random number generation, we can fill entropy
>> immediately"
>>
>> No kernel command line needed in practice any more. That's assuming any
>> kernel developer will have an IvyBridge or newer.
>
> any paid kernel developer :)

Developing for x86...

It takes several seconds to have collected sufficient entropy on e.g. some
ARM/ARM64 systems.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds