A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend
>If an existing session has the same ID as the new number, WireGuard asks RDRAND for another "random" number, checks it for uniqueness, and so on. Since RDRAND on my system—and any non-microcode-updated Ryzen 3000 system—always returned 0xFFFFFFFF no matter what, that means infinite loop.<p>I'm pretty surprised that so much software seems to rely on external (be it from the CPU, or the OS) random number generation directly instead of simply using a software PRNG and seeding it with external sources (and maybe additional creative sources if desired). That seems like a way more predictable system to me, in the sense that at least you get guaranteed uniformly distributed numbers, even if the external seeds are not uniformly distributed at all.