Linux XORs its PRNG with the hardware RNG, so it being deterministic wouldn't break it.
Out of curiosity, is the encryption salt really that quote from William Wordsworth's poem ("I wondered lonely as a cloud...") or was that a joke? Can't extract sarcasm from presentation slides :(
Despite the fact that it isn’t much of a vulnerability, per se, I’d be very interested to see if more processor vulnerabilities come out as a result of these better debugging tools.
“Imagine if instead of treating a conference as a passive chance to see a broad range of hacking demos, we all treated it as a chance to study up on the latest techniques. Something between workshop and lecture series...” - Dave Aitel