Fixing getrandom()

Posted Sep 29, 2019 20:27 UTC (Sun) by patrakov (subscriber, #97174)
In reply to: Fixing getrandom() by NYKevin
Parent article: Fixing getrandom()

This is exactly why I say "don't". Too many bugs stem from our desire do achieve the impossible instead of giving up immediately.

OTOH, jitter entropy will definitely help here, up to the point of making it completely unneeded to save entropy between reboots.