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Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Posted May 14, 2008 11:01 UTC (Wed) by IkeTo (subscriber, #2122)
In reply to: Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems by alankila
Parent article: Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Because not all software are only run on systems with /dev/random, and /dev/random doesn't
provide all the needed flexibility that some applications (especially those directly dealing
with security) require (e.g., knowing how much entropy it reflects).


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