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1  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: WARNING: CPU random generator seem to be failing on: December 30, 2022, 10:21:52 AM
Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on December 20, 2022, 12:13:07 PM
Yeah - this is not an Electrum bug. It is a bug with the BIOS and the error message would appear directly in the terminal when you try to launch Electrum, not in Electrum itself. OP would have received this error message on launching lots of different software from the terminal, not just Electrum.

Here is a screenshot from another user experiencing the same bug with entirely unrelated software - https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDHelp/comments/itfgf4/cpu_random_generator_seem_to_be_failing/

Thats correct, the message appeared directly in the terminal.
2  Bitcoin / Electrum / WARNING: CPU random generator seem to be failing on: December 17, 2022, 02:24:05 PM
i recently installed electrum on my ubuntu machine. every time i opened the wallet i got the following error displayed:

WARNING: CPU random generator seem to be failing, disabling hardware random number generation
WARNING: RDRND generated: 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff

after some research i found the problem. RDRND always returned the same "random" number. A BIOS update fixed the problem and i dont get this error anymore

my question:

i have created a few wallets while the error was present. does this mean i have created unsecure privatekeys because RDRND was broken? When or for what does electrum use RDRND?
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