Disable RDRAND on AMD chips before Zen.

There are reports that RDRAND on these chips can fail. Thus this change
disables the use RDRAND. Outside of FIPS mode, RDRAND is only used for
protection against forks and VM clones anyway.

(Note: I don't have any AMD chips to test on, so this is done blindly
from AMD's docs.)

Change-Id: Id61b2f6ba74c5ecf66804f7268a26e480a5bf815
Reviewed-on: https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/c/boringssl/+/36144
Commit-Queue: Adam Langley <alangley@gmail.com>
Commit-Queue: David Benjamin <davidben@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Benjamin <davidben@google.com>
1 file changed
tree: 128fcdf3a4d98ee57bc21792e36a7a5ce1da63d1
  1. .github/
  2. crypto/
  3. decrepit/
  4. fipstools/
  5. fuzz/
  6. include/
  7. ssl/
  8. third_party/
  9. tool/
  10. util/
  11. .clang-format
  12. .gitignore
  13. API-CONVENTIONS.md
  14. BREAKING-CHANGES.md
  15. BUILDING.md
  16. CMakeLists.txt
  17. codereview.settings
  18. CONTRIBUTING.md
  19. FUZZING.md
  20. go.mod
  21. INCORPORATING.md
  22. LICENSE
  23. PORTING.md
  24. README.md
  25. sources.cmake
  26. STYLE.md
README.md

BoringSSL

BoringSSL is a fork of OpenSSL that is designed to meet Google's needs.

Although BoringSSL is an open source project, it is not intended for general use, as OpenSSL is. We don't recommend that third parties depend upon it. Doing so is likely to be frustrating because there are no guarantees of API or ABI stability.

Programs ship their own copies of BoringSSL when they use it and we update everything as needed when deciding to make API changes. This allows us to mostly avoid compromises in the name of compatibility. It works for us, but it may not work for you.

BoringSSL arose because Google used OpenSSL for many years in various ways and, over time, built up a large number of patches that were maintained while tracking upstream OpenSSL. As Google's product portfolio became more complex, more copies of OpenSSL sprung up and the effort involved in maintaining all these patches in multiple places was growing steadily.

Currently BoringSSL is the SSL library in Chrome/Chromium, Android (but it's not part of the NDK) and a number of other apps/programs.

There are other files in this directory which might be helpful: