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Comment by onlydnaq

Why would anyone use rdrand directly? Seems like user space applications should use getrandom() or /dev/urandom and the kernel should use rdrand as a complementary random number source in its random number generator.

No user space program should need to use rdrand directly at all.

parent onlydnaq 7 years ago

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