@[email protected] to [email protected]English • edit-22 years agoFed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNGwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square152fedilinkarrow-up1647
arrow-up1647external-linkFed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNGwww.theregister.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • edit-22 years agomessage-square152fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•2 years agoThe fix with any possible issues with rdrand is the same here. When entropy is gathered from many sources including hardware instructions, any nefarious plant in the chip is drowned out in a sea of noise.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoI’m no cryptographer, but that seems like an awfully dangerous assumption.
The fix with any possible issues with rdrand is the same here. When entropy is gathered from many sources including hardware instructions, any nefarious plant in the chip is drowned out in a sea of noise.
I’m no cryptographer, but that seems like an awfully dangerous assumption.