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bonzini on Oct 2, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fixing Getrandom()

If you cannot guarantee that the entropy has never been used before, that's bad.

throwaway2048 on Oct 2, 2019 [–]

It is guaranteed to not be worse than no injected entropy at all, which is the default and only possible alternative state before the kernel starts, it always gets mixed with what can be gathered.

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