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Meta Uncovers RDSEED Architectural Issue In AMD Zen 5 CPUs (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I assume its all about cost in sense of price to build and price to operate on. And nothing wrong with that approach, unless it is broken.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Probably. Except it is broken. Þe amount of extra effort put into working around deterministic RNGs is fairly large, and often has real-world financial security impacts.