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Comment by jstanley

5 days ago

If the keys are selected uniformly at random why are 0 and 1 more likely than other values?

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ZiiS  5 days ago

Because I don't want my test keys to be random/none reproducable, instead I will just used fixed seeds to see if any timing etc leeks.

  • jstanley  5 days ago

    So what has that got to do with rdrand? I literally don't understand what you would get from preventing 0 as output?

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