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I believe you are extrapolating the threat model past anything reasonable.

The original concern around RdRand is that the tiny on-chip random number generator might be compromised.

You are arguing that there might be implementation that uses code analysis to detect data flow from RdRand and mess with it. It sounds very far fetched.



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