Re:Linux Hardening Guide
by tremon on Thursday December 31, 2020 @07:22AM
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That's not true, because the RDRAND entropy is mixed in last. So once you're under the assumption that RDRAND is nefarious, the microcode only needs to detect the rdrand-to-xor pattern to make the entire entropy pool predictable (for example: by setting the non-rdrand input to the xor operation to zero it could disable all other entropy sources).
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