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-r...
RDRAND doesn't output random numbers, only pseudorandom numbers. I
suppose that's what you meant.
Björn Persson