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Can't you wrap the RDRAND call with some long complicated code , so that tracking what fake_random will be hard to in hardware , thus preventing this attack?
by hershel 13y ago
Can't you wrap the RDRAND call with some long complicated code , so that tracking what fake_random will be hard to in hardware , thus preventing this attack?
- mnw21cam 13y agoYes, but then it's an arms race between the hardware manufacturer and the random number software writer. The fact is that the Linux/BSD random number generators were actually rather good before all this RDRAND stuff.