I'm reading https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/802360/06e2457983b56edb/ … and facepalming. There is so much wrong here I don't even know where to start.
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You can get entropy out of *asynchronous clocks*. Anything else is just a shitty hash function over other entropy inputs, if any, which you may as well try to collect directly.
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Replying to @marcan42
Even for that I wouldn't be convinced that you can get entropy out of it fast enough without some justification that is based on actual measurements of how the clocks behave
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Replying to @jix_
Absolutely, how much entropy you do get varies per platform.
12:28 PM - 18 Oct 2019
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