mikedilger on Nostr: Speaking of busting nation-state spies... When AMD released the Zen2 chips, the ...
Speaking of busting nation-state spies... When AMD released the Zen2 chips, the RDRAND instructions were outputting all 1's (the number -1) consistently. That's not very random. It was fixed in a bios update. The fact that this happened tells you a lot:
1) The random number generator can be bypassed
2) Someone at AMD intentionally bypassed it as a "bug" in order to alert us.
Published at
2024-01-08 03:40:58Event JSON
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