Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org> (2013-12-14): > On 14/12/13 01:08, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Yeah, I think Linux went through similar blindness braindamage sometime ago, > > but blind trust on rdrand has been fixed for a long time now, and it never > > trusted any of the other HRNGs (or used them for anything at all without a > > trip through "rng-tools" userspace until v3.12). > > I seem to remember that Ted T'so's committed the fix for this only after > the release of Linux 3.2, so I assuemd wheezy's kernels might be still > affected? If you're talking about this: | commit c2557a303ab6712bb6e09447df828c557c710ac9 | Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | Date: Thu Jul 5 10:35:23 2012 -0400 | | random: add new get_random_bytes_arch() function | […] it was backported into 3.2.y, that would be 7f5d5266f8a1f7f54707c15e028f220d329726f4 also known as v3.2.27~51. Mraw, KiBi.
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