Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Virtio RNG

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Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> If you're talking about RDRAND, it doesn't hand out entropy.  That's
> RDSEED, which will only come with Haswell.
> 
> RDRAND only hands out random numbers.

Huh? "Random numbers" is pretty much synonymous to "entropy" in the
cryptographic language I'm used to.

Ah, according to this:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2012/11/17/the-difference-between-rdrand-and-rdseed
RDRAND doesn't output random numbers, only pseudorandom numbers. I
suppose that's what you meant.

Björn Persson

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