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Not all applications use Linux. Not all applications go through Linux's /dev/random for their random needs. If you look into the discussion on, say, Theodore Tso's G+ entry on rdrand, you'll find that some people are eager to skip the OS and use rdrand directly.



Most server applications run on GNU/Linux operating system. Those machines are usually the strategic targets of such attacks, not Windows based computers.


Theodore Tso is a Linux kernel developer.




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