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jstanleytoday at 10:58 AM1 replyview on HN

Can you clarify what you mean by "it is vastly more likely someone will actually try that key"?

I'm guessing you don't think there are people calling rdrand in a loop and throwing away the output with high probability except when it is 0, but I can't see how else you imagine people would be vastly more likely to use the output when it is 0?


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ZiiStoday at 11:31 AM

In lots of scenarios I know the software used to generate the key; the only unknown is the random numbers used. If I am searching for weaknesses it is highly likely I would try keys with different seeds; zero, one, are going to me much more likely choices here then hoping I can guess the right values.

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