FreeBSD random number generator broken for last 4 months
FreeBSD random number generator broken for last 4 months
Posted Feb 18, 2015 18:01 UTC (Wed) by nnewton (subscriber, #40661)In reply to: FreeBSD random number generator broken for last 4 months by welinder
Parent article: FreeBSD random number generator broken for last 4 months
That is a good point. I think it was perhaps the title that made me question this. Hopefully this makes people more aware of the dangers of running -CURRENT. Particularly, the dangers of generating keys on a kernel that just had major work done on its random number generation :).
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