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On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, Philip Hudson wrote:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/we-cannot-trust-intel-and-vias-chip-based-crypto-freebsd-developers-say/
Incidentally, this is about FreeBSD, but just in-case anyone is worried about Linux here, worry not. Since 1994 when the kernel first started to use the rdrand instruction, it's only been used as part of the entropy pool that produces data for /dev/random and not its sole source.
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