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AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?

288 points · 220 comments · BruceEel

  1. ZiiS · · focus · HN ↗
    It is just possible they decided crypto code that uses it was safer to skip zeros. (Whist mathematically it should be no more likely; it is vastly more likely someone will actually try that key).

    It is also possible that their code was generating too many zeros and the easiest fix was to discard them all.

    1. dark-star · · focus · HN ↗
      this is not how crypto works
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