The random number generator "RNG" and crypto subsystem pull requests have already been submitted for the Linux 6.1 merge window.
Jason Donenfeld of WireGuard fame continues spending a lot of time working to clean-up Linux's RNG code. For Linux 6.1 the RNG code has seen a regression fix come around O_NONBLOCK that broke user-space some two years ago, a performance regression fix, using randomness from hardware RNGs earlier in the boot process, and a variety of other smaller changes to the RNG code that has been undergoing a lot of improvements as of late.
The full list of RNG changes for Linux 6.1 can be found via
The full list of RNG changes for Linux 6.1 can be found via
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