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Re:RDRAND on AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is flakey by tadfisher on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:48PM (#25738817)
> The comment in the code[1] about RDRAND being sufficient for the use-case of UUIDs is empirically false.

Ipse dixit. Can you provide an explanation?

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Re:RDRAND on AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is flakey by aidenn0 on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:53PM (#25738935)
1. TFA

2. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/how-a-months-old-amd...

3. https://linuxreviews.org/RDRAND_stops_returning_random_value...

4. There are also comments elsewhere on this page that older Intel RDRAND implementations had similar issues, but they did not cite their source.

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