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Re: possible /dev/random compromise (misplaced trust in RDRAND / Padlock entropy sources)



Hi,

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?

Regards,
-- 
Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org


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