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diff --git a/vendor/rdrand/README.mkd b/vendor/rdrand/README.mkd new file mode 100644 index 0000000..55ab48b --- /dev/null +++ b/vendor/rdrand/README.mkd @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +An implementation of random number generators based on `rdrand` and `rdseed` instructions. + +The random number generators provided by this crate are fairly slow (the latency for these +instructions is pretty high), but provide high quality random bits. Caveat is: neither AMD’s +nor Intel’s designs are public and therefore are not verifiable for lack of backdoors. + +Unless you know what you are doing, use the random number generators provided by the `rand` +crate (such as `EntropyRng`) instead. |