The Linux CSPRNG Is Now Good!

1 · Filippo Valsorda · Feb. 9, 2020, 11 p.m.
Oceans of ink and hours on stage have been spent to convince the world that the best random number generator is /dev/urandom, the kernel one. And it is, and it's always been. However, an uncomfortable truth was that the Linux CSPRNG really could have been better than...

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Filippo Valsorda

Cryptogopher. RC F'13, F2'17.