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Agreed. However any form of "tricking" would be ultimately pointless because a small adjustment could be made to random.c. Existing CPUs can't be "changed" (barring microcode, but avoiding that is simple - don't install new microcode) so they would no longer work against the system.

In addition the amount of transistors required to actively circumvent random.c is prohibitive: CPUs would need to be significantly larger to pull off attacks like this.




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