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Re:Some AMD CPU's RDRAND might not return random data after ... by floatboth on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @12:55PM (#19851225)
Well, not handling collisions helps a lot with exposing bad CSPRNGs. If they (and e.g. OpenSSH as mentioned in the original 2014 bug report) did handle collisions, it could've remained unnoticed.
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