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nspaced commented on AMD: Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability   github.com/google/securit... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
unsnap_biceps · 7 months ago
> A test payload for Milan and Genoa CPUs that makes the RDRAND instruction return 4

I would be tickled pink if the 4 was in reference to https://xkcd.com/221/

nspaced · 7 months ago
Hi, I'm one of the authors and yes it was :)
nspaced commented on NeuG USB True Random Number Generator   shop.fsf.org/storage-devi... · Posted by u/brudgers
nfoz · 8 years ago
Is there any trick to combining entropy sources? Do you just add the numbers together, or is it something more involved, to make sure that you -- I don't know -- collapse entropy away in the combination, or something.
nspaced · 8 years ago
The joint entropy of two random variables is never less than the individual entropies.

u/nspaced

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