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It's not that simple; Donenfeld wants to replace the whole LRNG with a new engine that uses simpler, more modern, and more secure/easier-to-analyze cryptography, and one of the roadblocks there is that swapping out the engine risks breaking bugs that userland relies on.

vilhelm_s
What kind of bugs are visible to userland? I would have thought a random number device would be the least likely thing to have upgrade problems like that: applications should not be able to assume anything at all since the output is literally random...
westurner
Shouldn't it be easier than a kernel parameter to compare the performance of specific applications that relied upon the current behaviors; at least for a major rev or two?

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