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

submitted 2 weeks ago by Sunshine@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Huh? Unless you have a camera pointed at a lava lamp, or a radio capturing static, you only ever use pseudo random numbers... Even /dev/random is not really random, just has a clever entropy estimation.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They’re being a prick about the typo

[–] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, missed that one, thanks!