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Re: fix for no ssh



On 2019-07-08, Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
> Hi Curt,
>
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 05:48:24PM -0000, Curt wrote:
>> it "amounts to trusting that CPU manufacturer (perhaps with the
>> insistence or mandate of a Nation State's intelligence or law
>> enforcement agencies) has not installed a hidden back door to
>> compromise the CPU's random number generation facilities."

> Again, everyone using a popular CPU is already in that position.

Hello Andy,

The CPU trust model is not a simple boolean operation and some aspects
of a CPU are more easily, and perhaps even much more easily, compromised
than others. So I believe your sweeping dismissal not to be very finely
wrought.


> Cheers,
> Andy
>


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