alt Hacker NewsOlder AMD processors had issues as well:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/12536/commits/1c53d4...
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matja • today at 12:34 PM
Why does systemd use architecture-specific instructions rather than using the kernel-provided random interface in the first place?
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That one's insidious!
I found the thread about it,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19848953
Yikes at this: "I am so glad I resisted pressure from engineers working at Intel to let /dev/random in Linux rely blindly on the output of the RDRAND instructure." -Theodore Ts'o (2013)