I'm not sure how I can explain it any more clearly! If that note is true, then crucial details of the RDRAND specification in Intel CPUs were supplied by someo

I'm not sure how I can explain it any more clearly! If that note is true, then crucial details of the RDRAND specification in Intel CPUs were supplied by someone other than Intel. Who's most likely to want to push for a particular implementation to their own enormous potential advantage? The NSA. Who has prior history of doing exactly this to a random number generator standard? The NSA. Do we know that the NSA influenced the Intel RDRAND implementation in these ways? No. Did they have both motive & opportunity? Absolutely, yes they did. Which is why a concrete reference for that note would be good: if someone can point to the place in the public record where Intel admitted that they were not solely responsible for the RDRAND implementation then that's a fairly big deal & a brief sentence in someone's conference notes isn't good enough.