Re: New function: secure-random-bytes

[Romain Francoise]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> There's one extra wrinkle I'd like to add while we're at it:
> if available we should use the random-number instructions
> in recent implementations of x86 and x86-64 architectures
> as this should yield even better performance.

Yes, although some people think they shouldn't be used directly but mixed
with other sources, for trust reasons:

 http://git.kernel.org/linus/c2557a303ab6712bb6e09447df828c557c710ac9