Il 02/02/2013 14:49, Björn Persson ha scritto: > 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. Yes, you're right. Paolo -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
