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The security co-processor in many CPUs is insecure
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this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2026
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Yeah, this has actually been a known thing for a while. The government has been sneakily getting their hand into NIST standards and trying to ensure they have back doors in the commonly used "best practices".
So as a result for instance, encryption based on pseudo random numbers generated with hashing algorithms are actually safer that these theoretically "actually random" numbers generated in dedicated security modules in hardware.