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Ivy Bridge and newer CPU's of Intel have this new "random" instruction (I still have a Sandy Bridge CPU tho). Is that one truly random enough for crypto purposes? Thanks!



No, and it does not matter who you trust. Analog circuitry simply has too much inbound and outbound information leakage to be trustworthy. You must round it out with a mixing algorithm.




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