On Mi, 10 iul 19, 07:39:54, Curt wrote: > 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. > > 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. https://lwn.net/Articles/738649/ Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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