25 Jul
2014
25 Jul
'14
10:24 a.m.
On 7/25/2014 3:56 AM, jwsmobile wrote:
The mechanism in the Pentium was almost open compared
to what is there
now. All of this is under heavy NDA as far as it even being there, and
it may or may not be these days.
It has been widely speculated (and supported by the Snowden documents)
that the NSA can defeat the Intel random number generator - and
therefore any crypto based on that RNG) with a microcode patch.
Microcode patches - it's not just for /fixing/ bugs...
Rob