How a Bad Random Number Generator Froze Sway (2020)

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  • > [...] there's no guarantee that RDRAND won't revert to the -1 behavior after the check runs, perhaps after a VM migration or resume from suspend or what-not.

    Author here. This is true and is an issue with some CPUs (breaking RDRAND after resume), but every call to RDRAND is guarded[1] by a check that it works.

    [1]: https://github.com/json-c/json-c/blob/041cef434afe0d0c6da8b6...

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