This is the kind of tangential thinking tptacek apparently fell for in the BitBabbler discussion. While they were talking Intel RNG's, I was focusing on the fac

This is the kind of tangential thinking tptacek apparently fell for in the BitBabbler discussion. While they were talking Intel RNG's, I was focusing on the fact that Intel advertises a chip-level backdoor w/ its own TCP/IP stack & MCU that listens even when CPU is shutdown. It's called AMT. That he knew about it but focused on risk of their TRNG when whole chip is backdoored is beyond my understanding. Here it is in case you weren't familiar with its specifics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Techno... Also, as in my recent reply to lisper, the hooks that make it work are probably in all the chips of any family containing at least one with that technology. That's to reduce mask and production costs. They might be able to remotely activate it but can't know cuz it's a black box. :)