Re: How can you verify the randomness that's coming from a hardware?
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6 years is "long ago"? Hardly. And how long is enough to forgive a company for sneaking a government funded backdoor in to billions of devices?
6 years is long enough to know if there was some affect from this supposed backdooring of "billions of devices". you would think if its happening to "billions of devices", it would be happening to all of us right now too. Quote
And you expect a company which might be putting a backdoor in to their products to release documentation which says they have put a backdoor in to their products?
well let's take a look at what intel themself says about IME:
At system initialization, the Intel® Management Engine loads its code from system flash memory. This allows the Intel® Management Engine to be up before the main operating system is started. For run-time data storage, the Intel® Management Engine has access to a protected area of system memory (in addition to a small amount of on-chip cache memory for faster and more efficient processing).
So what exactly was the result of those 32 lawsuits? https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/16/17020048/intel-spectre-meltdown-class-action-lawsuits
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Further reading: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/05/us/documents-reveal-nsa-campaign-against-encryption.html
that document never mentions Intel though.
at any rate, i dont see intel as a bad guy and would just like to sometime testout rdseed to see how random its output looks. if it looks random enough maybe it's good enough. but at some point i would like one of those usb hardware RNGs because i think they might be above this type of criticism. but they do cost a good bit. like $60 or $70. for the TrueRNG. off amazon. but then i wouldn't have to worry about if my output was truly random or known by some 3rd party too.
