How Intel Makes a Chip

Re:How Intel Makes a Chip by PeCaN on Saturday June 11, 2016 @08:36PM (#11886095)

Intel has plausible deniability. A backdoor in RDRAND would be some very minor statistical flaw. It could just be something tiny that makes private keys susceptible to some known or unknown attack.

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Re:How Intel Makes a Chip by dogma1138 on Sunday June 12, 2016 @06:43PM (#11890690)

Doesn't matter still a recall will be called for.

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Re:How Intel Makes a Chip by PeCaN on Monday June 13, 2016 @11:45AM (#11894786)

RDRAND is probably microcoded, so they should just be able to patch it out. Since they can't be charged with anything malicious, Intel gets off scot-free.

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