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Re:Technical feasibility of decrypting https by replacing th... by api on Sunday July 14, 2013 @12:17PM (#6041266)
There's also something fairly basic you can use to mitigate this: mix rdrand's output with some amount of entropy from other sources.

Even if it were done just a little to minimize performance impact, this would greatly increase the difficulty of using such a backdoor if it did exist.

And totally good point about cloud. Any cloud host can trivially observe everything you are doing, steal your keys, etc.

Re:Technical feasibility of decrypting https by replacing th... by nightcracker on Sunday July 14, 2013 @01:03PM (#6041379)
If you have other sources of good entropy then there's absolutely no point in using RdRand at all.
Re:Technical feasibility of decrypting https by replacing th... by Dylan16807 on Sunday July 14, 2013 @01:27PM (#6041455)
It never hurts to mix in more random.