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This is ancient news, and it seemed to be sufficiently explained as really silly human error. However your comment reminded me of a Dilbert- http://dilbert.com
by corresation 13y ago
This is ancient news, and it seemed to be sufficiently explained as really silly human error. However your comment reminded me of a Dilbert-
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25/ http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25/
- exDM69 13y agoWhile we're talking comics, this xkcd comic was inspired by this particular debian bug: http://xkcd.com/221/ http://xkcd.com/221/ As a more serious note, people who are not cryptographers should refrain from touching crypto code, especially something as important as pseudo random number generators. In addition, it's not a very good idea be doing significant modifications "downstream" from the actual project.