Random numbers from CPU execution time jitter

Posted May 4, 2015 12:21 UTC (Mon) by robbe (guest, #16131)
In reply to: Random numbers from CPU execution time jitter by jzbiciak
Parent article: Random numbers from CPU execution time jitter

I find it a bit disheartening that the linked paper only tested one embedded CPU (MIPS) ... the rest were x86-compatible CPUs, which, with their looong pipelines, deep cache hierarchies, turbo-mode et cetera, are very prone to indeterminism.

So this serves the "my (virtual) x86 server needs entropy for HTTPS" case pretty well ... but embedded?