<div dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21185301">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21185301</a></div><div><br></div><div>This discussion notes that VeraCrypt's latest version "<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">Use Hardware RNG based on CPU timing jitter "Jitterentropy" by Stephan Mueller as a good alternative to CPU RDRAND (</span><a href="http://www.chronox.de/jent.html" target="_blank" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">http://www.chronox.de/jent.html</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">)"</span></div><div><br></div><div>The ycombinator discussion isn't convinced that this is a good idea, and many people think that Vera Crypt have made a mistake ... so any comments here would be welcome :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Also in typical web style the discussion diverges to the point that we're identifying Satoshi as Paul Le Roux!</div><div><br></div><div>-jim<br></div></div>