[PATCH] random: remove CONFIG_ARCH_RANDOM and "nordrand"

Borislav Petkov bp at alien8.de
Tue Jul 5 15:00:04 PDT 2022


On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 02:50:34PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> It's just math. The only variable is your confidence level, i.e. at
> what level do you decide that the likelihood of pure chance is way
> smaller than the likelihood of hardware failure.

That might be but the likelyhood of certain BIOSes dropping the ball
after resume is 100%:

7879fc4bdc75 ("x86/rdrand: Sanity-check RDRAND output")

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