Small utilities for generating random numbers with RDRAND.
Run rdrand to produce random numbers. For example, to generate
8 kibibytes (8192 bytes) of random data.
./rdrand --size=8k --output=8_kibibytes.txt
Without an output file, the random numbers will be printed in hexadecimal form.
It is also possible to set a core affinity, to restrict operation to a single CPU core:
./rdrand -s 8k -o 8_kibibytes.txt -c 0
The largest RDRAND processor instruction returns data in 64-bit chunks. The underlying generation process, however, uses 128-bit blocks. This utility was created to piece together the underlying blocks.
To do so, it runs in rounds. Each round runs 16 consecutive 64 bit generation attempts, and marks down successes. If any calls to RDRAND fail, the round restarts.