Pitchforks for RDSEED

Posted Feb 9, 2024 12:30 UTC (Fri) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: Pitchforks for RDSEED by spacefrogg
Parent article: Pitchforks for RDSEED

Sure – but you can make this number of instances less significant than, well, any arbitrary probability you desire. Simply retry often enough so that it only happens once per century, assuming that a billion CPUs do nothing but call RDSEED.

Pitchforks for RDSEED

Posted Feb 9, 2024 12:47 UTC (Fri) by spacefrogg (subscriber, #119608) [Link]

I don't think you understand the relations. You cannot, be assured. (At least not by the way of waving your hands).

If you really must and invest a lot of money, the best you can currently achieve is the quality level (very high), speed (kbit/s), chip size (10mm^2) and usage intervals (<100 per day) of smartcards.

Pitchforks for RDSEED

Posted Feb 9, 2024 12:52 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

And I think you need to study some statistics. There's a reason buses come in threes ...

Cheers,
Wol