Would appreciate some sort of a summary. Reading some mile long email exchange just to figure out what the headline is really about makes it kinda tricky.
I read the whole thing, but few here would truly feel that my summary of 'paranoia. paranoia everywhere' is not a government plant.
The core concern seems to be the idea that an RNG embedded into Intel's latest kit might actually be a PRNG that could be backdoored by NSA on command somehow with resultant catastrophic effects to crypto primitives on that box, if the Intel RNG were the only source of entropy on the box.
Uh, RdRand is definitely a pseudo random number generator. The question is about whether it's cryptographically secure or not, or more specifically, whether it can be or is backdoored.
The core concern seems to be the idea that an RNG embedded into Intel's latest kit might actually be a PRNG that could be backdoored by NSA on command somehow with resultant catastrophic effects to crypto primitives on that box, if the Intel RNG were the only source of entropy on the box.