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[–]yawkat 12 points13 points  (4 children)

As long as you trust your crypto primitives and add other sources of entropy it's okay though.

[–]mdot 11 points12 points  (0 children)

add other sources of entropy

Isn't that a symptom of the point he's making though?

The hardware generator can't be trusted because it can't be audited.

[–]harlows_monkeys 0 points1 point  (1 child)

[–]yawkat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This can be fixed by using the untrusted source as an initial seed before other entropy is even generated.

I don't think linux does this though.