I hate to bring up his tone, but that's what his tone does: it distracts from his point, and inevitably directs the discussion towards him and his outbursts.
I can re-write his response to be concise and firm, but polite. It'll just take a second:
> "This petition is misguided. We use rdrand as _one_ of many inputs into the random pool, and we use it as a way to _improve_ that random pool. Even if rdrand were to be back-doored by the NSA, our use of rdrand actually improves the quality of the random numbers you get from /dev/random. All of the relevant code is found in drivers/char/random.c, if you want to see for yourself."
I can re-write his response to be concise and firm, but polite. It'll just take a second:
> "This petition is misguided. We use rdrand as _one_ of many inputs into the random pool, and we use it as a way to _improve_ that random pool. Even if rdrand were to be back-doored by the NSA, our use of rdrand actually improves the quality of the random numbers you get from /dev/random. All of the relevant code is found in drivers/char/random.c, if you want to see for yourself."