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Re:A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend by drewg123 on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:56AM (#21387181)
He could boot. His problem was lockups after boot with wireguard directly calling RDRND & looping on non-random random numbers rather than using an API to get random numbers.
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Re:A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend by dfox on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @10:53PM (#21394273)
The issue is that Linux’s kernel-only “fast” CSPRNG is just thin wrapper around arch_get_random() (ie. RDRAND) when it is supported.
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