[Gllug] Questions arising from the random discussions...

[Walter Stanish]

>>>> It may be of interest to read Documentation/hw_random.txt in /usr/src/linux
>>>
>>> That's about Linux's support for *hardware* random number generators (that
>>> is to say, those that need direct kernel support).
>>
>> Yes, they're in most modern PCs
>
> No they aren't. Some VIAs have them. Intel put them in some machines
> briefly and then stopped. I think that's it.

Ahh, my bad.  I guess I just assumed that, after seeing them pop up some
years ago that PRNGs were - as per most hardware - to be accrued as
mainstream and thus become rolled in to the motherboards or CPUs and
never go away...

Makes you wonder why they weren't?

- Walter
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