Timeline for Truly Random Numbers at Scale - Overloaded memory chips generate truly random numbers for encryption
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| Jan 25, 2022 at 14:50 | comment | added | A. Hersean | They do. The Linux CSPRNG (/dev/urandom and /dev/random) uses it (among other sources) when available. It is assumed Windows does so too, but since it's closed source, this information is not public. | |
| Jan 25, 2022 at 14:40 | comment | added | Nathan Aw | alright thats cool to know! why aren't people leveraging that since it is widely available? | |
| Jan 25, 2022 at 14:40 | vote | accept | Nathan Aw | ||
| Jan 24, 2022 at 21:57 | answer | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 24, 2022 at 9:04 | comment | added | A. Hersean |
The RDSEED instruction can be found on any recent x64 microprocessor. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDRAND Also, ARM chips usually have similar capabilities, but it has not been standardized.
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| Jan 23, 2022 at 23:45 | answer | added | Paul Uszak | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jan 23, 2022 at 8:08 | answer | added | Georgii Firsov | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 23, 2022 at 5:58 | history | asked | Nathan Aw | CC BY-SA 4.0 |