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Qt Moves Away From Direct RDRAND/RDSEED Usage For Better Performance & Less Bugs


The Qt toolkit is moving away from directly relying on the CPU's RDRAND and RDSEED instructions for random number generation and to instead rely on the OS-supplied entropy.

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