alt Hacker NewsInteresting. x86_64 has RDRAND for entropy (and RDSEED to seed). Oh I guess there's also ARM these days but I bet they got one too.
Interesting. x86_64 has RDRAND for entropy (and RDSEED to seed). Oh I guess there's also ARM these days but I bet they got one too.
I write code which runs in embedded spaces, so a lot of ARM and even RISC-V. So I have a simple, portable source of pseudo-random numbers which will give good random numbers on a potato, which means rolling my own.