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It is but you need to trust the hardware. Trust is the keyword here. Long battles have been fought over this. Many high profile authors have (successfully) a
by willis936 5y ago
It is but you need to trust the hardware. Trust is the keyword here. Long battles have been fought over this. Many high profile authors have (successfully) argued against the use of unauditable sources of entropy being used in /dev/random.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDRAND#Reception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDRAND#Reception
- hypertele-Xii 5y agoIf you don't trust the hardware, any software you run on it is already compromised.
- Vecr 5y agoYeah, but having a broken RNG in unauditable encrypted obfuscated microcode is more likely to go undetected than something hotter and more critical for performance, but even then meltdown and spectre took a long time to figure out.