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by ryao 433 days ago
Do a web search for rdrand and systemd.
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> Do a web search for rdrand and systemd.

RDRAND always returning all-FF is exactly the kind of thing that's an obvious bug, not a plausible-but-wrong result.

The other guy said "Maybe your program worked due to the bug they fixed.". The RDRAND fix achieved exactly that.