Title: What about this Crypto exploit? Post by: Remember remember the 5th of November on September 21, 2013, 05:18:09 PM Link is here http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/researchers-can-slip-an-undetectable-trojan-into-intels-ivy-bridge-cpus/
Sounds like if anyone wants to sabotage cryptography, this is the way to go. Choose your next CPU carefully! Title: Re: What about this Crypto exploit? Post by: Come-from-Beyond on September 21, 2013, 05:22:08 PM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_tests
Title: Re: What about this Crypto exploit? Post by: Remember remember the 5th of November on September 21, 2013, 05:23:33 PM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_tests In the article it says that some tests fail to detect it.Title: Re: What about this Crypto exploit? Post by: Come-from-Beyond on September 21, 2013, 05:31:25 PM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_tests In the article it says that some tests fail to detect it.Some? Maybe. But common sense says that a RNG with low entropy, that can't be detected, does not exist. Title: Re: What about this Crypto exploit? Post by: dddbtc on September 21, 2013, 05:46:01 PM Any intel ivy bridge users care to comment on this 0_0
I've been happily using one for months in my miner... Don't know what to think of this haha. |