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Re:Random Number Generator Recommendations for Applications by tptacek on Friday June 02, 2023 @10:42AM (#36165753)
No, this has nothing at all to do with hardware; the state of play is the same on machines that don't have instructions like RDRAND.
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Re:Random Number Generator Recommendations for Applications by cbsmith on Friday June 02, 2023 @02:20PM (#36168846)
I think I still don't understand. Can you explain why it is not a hypothetical problem on a deterministic virtual machine?
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