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Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Posted May 14, 2008 21:19 UTC (Wed) by alankila (subscriber, #47141)
In reply to: Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems by tialaramex
Parent article: Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

What exactly is the price you allude to? Predictability of the random numbers? Some kind of
timing-related attack, because packet arrival times may affect the entropy pool input? A
kernel exploit that allows simultaneous compromise of all applications using the /dev/u?random
file?


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