21 Mar
2022
21 Mar
'22
3:51 p.m.
On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 14:55:33 +1300, Michael Cree wrote:
What I would be interested in knowing, is how do they actually achieve the sufficient randomness within one second. What is the trick to achieve this?
Apparently three years ago Linus Torvalds added a quick patch which sampled CPU clock jitter. He wasn’t entirely convinced it was effective, but it seems to have held up so far.