[bitfolk] Further experiments with boot time entropy, RDRAN…

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Author: Andy Smith
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Subject: [bitfolk] Further experiments with boot time entropy, RDRAND and the BitFolk entropy service

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Hello,

I wrote a thing about the different options for handling boot-time
entropy on distributions that may be affected such as Debian 10
(buster).

TL;DR: By default the CPU's RDRAND instruction is used so you won't
notice anything and don't need to care unless you believe that Intel
is a pawn of the US government, in which case maybe you want to
disable it.

Cheers,
Andy

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