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Re:_NSAKEY by willis936 on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @08:54AM (#22044705)
Look at Snowden’s leaks and RDRAND.
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Re:_NSAKEY by lima on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @10:48AM (#22045852)
Nothing in the Snowden leaks suggests that RDRAND is backdoored.
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Re:_NSAKEY by joshstrange on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @11:49AM (#22046580)
Nothing in the Snowden leaks PROVES the RDRAND was backdoored.

Bullrun [0] definitely suggests it..

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullrun_(decryption_program)

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Re:_NSAKEY by MertsA on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @12:01PM (#22046723)
He's probably thinking of either Dual EC DRBG, or the HTTP header they came up with to leak enough data from it to compromise it.
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