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Re:OpenSSH taking minutes to become available, booting takes... by ori_b on Thursday July 18, 2019 @01:34AM (#20467016)
Yeah, but you don't need to use rdrand in that scenario -- the cpu could also just tamper with the pool at will, regardless of the RDRAND instruction.
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Re:OpenSSH taking minutes to become available, booting takes... by lifthrasiir on Thursday July 18, 2019 @03:57AM (#20467739)
djb has noted that RDRAND is a particularly attractable means to exfiltration back in 2014 [1]. So it is not simply irrelevant.

[1] https://blog.cr.yp.to/20140205-entropy.html

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