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FreeBSD random number generator broken for last 4 months

FreeBSD random number generator broken for last 4 months

Posted Feb 19, 2015 5:09 UTC (Thu) by Paf (subscriber, #91811)
In reply to: FreeBSD random number generator broken for last 4 months by cesarb
Parent article: FreeBSD random number generator broken for last 4 months

My take away from this is it's still only the keys which were actually generated on a machine with the buggy kernel are at risk. Did I misunderstand something?


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