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tl,dr: (1) There's no evidence of anything wrong with AMD's RNG. (2) Lots of people on Github and HN don't understand the birthday paradox.
by captaincrowbar 6y ago
tl,dr:
(1) There's no evidence of anything wrong with AMD's RNG.
(2) Lots of people on Github and HN don't understand the birthday paradox.
- rurban 6y agoEven AMD admits their rdrand is broken and offers patches. Test a bad AMD system by yourself. I have such a system, unpatched, and it's atrocious. Slow and Bad. But more atrocious is that systemd keeps on using this possible backdoor. It's bad and slow, most other LCG's are miles better. https://rurban.github.io/dieharder/QUALITY.html https://rurban.github.io/dieharder/QUALITY.html https://github.com/rurban/dieharder/blob/master/libdieharder/rng_rdrand.c https://github.com/rurban/dieharder/blob/master/libdieharder... using the intrinsic, not inline asm