On 2019-07-08, Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote: > Hi Curt, > > On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 05:48:24PM -0000, Curt wrote: >> it "amounts to trusting that CPU manufacturer (perhaps with the >> insistence or mandate of a Nation State's intelligence or law >> enforcement agencies) has not installed a hidden back door to >> compromise the CPU's random number generation facilities."
> Again, everyone using a popular CPU is already in that position. Hello Andy, The CPU trust model is not a simple boolean operation and some aspects of a CPU are more easily, and perhaps even much more easily, compromised than others. So I believe your sweeping dismissal not to be very finely wrought. > Cheers, > Andy > -- "These findings demonstrate that under appropriate conditions the isolated, intact large mammalian brain possesses an underappreciated capacity for restoration of microcirculation and molecular and cellular activity after a prolonged post-mortem interval." From a recent article in *Nature*. Holy shit.