[gmuslera]

Hanlon's razor help in this kind of discussions. Maybe when Linus took that option didn't saw Intel as something that would intentionally make predictable its RNG for following government orders, and just choose to not reimplement the wheel where it was already available.

Would he take another option since last month? Maybe in the light of this he could take back that choice.

[gizmo686]

Linus does not have the option to reimplement the wheel. Software cannot generate random numbers.

[skore]

> Software cannot generate random numbers.

Can hardware? [0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generato...