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Please people! When you post ssh addresses, always remember to also post your user name and password or private key with the pull request.
Linus Torvalds

I fail to see the benefit of just using the hardware random number generator. We are already mixing in the hardware random number generator into the /dev/random pool, and so the only thing that using only the HW source is to make the kernel more vulnerable to an attack where the NSA leans on a few Intel employee and forces/bribes them to make a change such that the last step in the RDRAND's AES whitening step is changed to use a counter plus a AES key known by the NSA.
Ted Ts'o
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