Re: Hashed pointer issues

[Randy Dunlap]

On 04/30/2018 10:01 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 9:57 AM Linus Torvalds <
> torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 :)

> 
> The "I don't trust my hardware" people can still disable that with
> "nordrand".
> 
> Hmm?


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~Randy