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The entire CPU is "closed source." If you can't trust the CPU, then it's game over for everything you're doing on the CPU.
by rwg 14y ago
The entire CPU is "closed source." If you can't trust the CPU, then it's game over for everything you're doing on the CPU.
- zurn 14y agoTrust isn't binary. Backdooring or exploitably bungling the deterministic parts of the CPU without getting caught is much harder than doing the same for the RNG part. Black box RNG's are notoriously hard to evaluate.