From 1b6a04ca5504955c571d1c97504fb45ea0befee4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Valentin Popov Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 01:21:28 +0400 Subject: Initial vendor packages Signed-off-by: Valentin Popov --- vendor/rdrand/README.mkd | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) create mode 100644 vendor/rdrand/README.mkd (limited to 'vendor/rdrand/README.mkd') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3