Pitchforks for RDSEED

Posted Feb 10, 2024 15:26 UTC (Sat) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: Pitchforks for RDSEED by dullfire
Parent article: Pitchforks for RDSEED

> If this is occurring after a retry loop of 10 (which, if I did my math right, has less than a 0.001% chance of happening if a 'normal' RDSEED has a failure rate of 30%)

That sounds like you're assuming events are independent. I feel like there's some level of dependence when one is right after another (i.e., failures will cluster).