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Re: [Cryptography] [RNG] on RNGs, VM state, rollback, etc.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christoph Anton Mitterer)
Fri Oct 18 17:50:43 2013
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From: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 22:33:14 +0200
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On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 11:54 -0700, John Denker wrote:
> Blocking /dev/urandom is a bad idea.
Why? If the system is correctly set up, a good seed should be loaded and
no problem will arise.
If not, it's better to have failing programs or even a completely broken
system, than one that does insecure things.
Cheers,
Chris.
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