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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] random-bits: Factor out entropy generating function
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On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 8:05 PM Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com> wrote:

> AFAIK our goal is entropy more so than security. For example
> if this is used to generate jiffies to stagger threads its not a security
> issue in any sense, it's just not ideal for performance.

In any case this should be more than fast enough for the other use
cases of random_bits() .. maybe one new random_bits_fast() function
foe edge cases where even this is too slow?