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Do you realize how much of a performance hit modern desktops would take if a processor that had to freeze the operating system while it wandered through memory first identifying the operating system and then finding the entropy pool and modifying it?

>Presumably using the same skynet tech it uses to look ahead and see where the rdrand is going to be xored into.

There is no such tech. That's why this is not 'checkmate'. A poisoned random number that generates numbers in a predictable manner is orders of magnitude easier to implement and less possible to detect than a magical processor that changes memory it thinks might be entropy for some operating systems it has been pre-programmed to look for under the assumption that kernel will never change ever. Get real.



I think you have misinterpreted my comments as arguments for the backdoor that I am attempting to dismiss.




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