Re: [PATCH,RFC] random: collect cpu randomness

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 09:54:22PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> 
>  Can we be sure we don't leak information this way?  Just being 
> paranoid...

The register information will be mixed pretty thoroughly by the time
it gets to the entropy pool, and then we don't ever expose the entropy
pool to userspace.  So no, I don't think we need to worry about
leaking information.

					- Ted
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