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Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Posted May 14, 2008 11:13 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems by alankila
Parent article: Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

For portability. Lots of OSes don't have it. Lots of other OSes have slightly or seriously
broken /dev/randoms, or /dev/random readable only by root, or something like that.

(Most modern OSes have /dev/random these days, but this certainly was not always the case.)


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