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How To Make Any AMD Zen CPU Always Generate 4 As a Random Number
Sunday February 9, 2025. 10:34 PM , from Slashdot
Slashdot reader headlessbrick writes: Google security researchers have discovered a way to bypass AMD's security, enabling them to load unofficial microcode into its processors and modify the silicon's behaviour at will. To demonstrate this, they created a microcode patch that forces the chips to always return 4 when asked for a random number. Beyond simply allowing Google and others to customize AMD chips for both beneficial and potentially malicious purposes, this capability also undermines AMD's secure encrypted virtualization and root-of-trust security mechanisms.
Obligatory XKCD. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/02/09/2021244/how-to-make-any-amd-zen-cpu-always-generate-4-as-a-ra...
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