floofloof@lemmy.ca to LinuxEnglish · edit-211 months agoFed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNGwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square152fedilinkarrow-up1653arrow-down18
arrow-up1645arrow-down1external-linkFed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNGwww.theregister.comfloofloof@lemmy.ca to LinuxEnglish · edit-211 months agomessage-square152fedilink
minus-squarepingvenolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months 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-squareargv_minus_one@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months 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.