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Use Intel's new RdRand instruction to seed the random number generator

Open ukoethe opened this issue 14 years ago • 1 comments

autodetect (in cmake) if the instruction is available

ukoethe avatar Sep 13 '11 19:09 ukoethe

RdRand is unsafe and hard to use properly. It's best to just use system randomness sources (/dev/urandom or arc4random() in most cases).

mmcco avatar Aug 06 '15 17:08 mmcco