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@ -250,7 +250,9 @@ Direct memory access:
Entropy:
- Do not credit the CPU or bootloader as entropy sources at boot in order to
maximize the absolute quantity of entropy in the combined pool.
maximize the absolute quantity of entropy in the combined pool. This is desirable
for all cryptographic operations reliant proprietary on RDRAND and RDSEED CPU
instructions for random number generation that have long history of being defective.
- Obtain more entropy at boot from RAM as the runtime memory allocator is
being initialized.