Joe Gidi [j...@entropicblur.com] wrote: > Support for the RdRand instruction was added to i386 and amd64 a year ago > (see http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=134808609318790&w=2 ), but recent > events have called its trustworthiness into question: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RdRand > https://plus.google.com/117091380454742934025/posts/SDcoemc9V3J > > Do these concerns currently affect OpenBSD? Is RdRand actually used by > default by the base system?
it is used to seed the pseudo RNG only, not as a true RNG (unlike Linux)
