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Does anybody know how RDRAND is being used in FreeBSD 10 ? is RDRAND somehow mandated so that it must be used, I mean why are both Linux and BSD both thinking t
by MichaelMoser123 13y ago
Does anybody know how RDRAND is being used in FreeBSD 10 ?
is RDRAND somehow mandated so that it must be used, I mean why are both Linux and BSD both thinking that this is such a swell feature that must be implemented ?
Theodore Tso - the author of Linux /dev/random thinks that using it is a bad idea
https://plus.google.com/117091380454742934025/posts/SDcoemc9V3J https://plus.google.com/117091380454742934025/posts/SDcoemc9...
- bcoates 13y agoA lack of entropy sources on some kinds of hardware is a real problem, and buggy attempts to work around it have resulted in defective, easily factorable keys being used in the wild on equipment like Juniper SRX gateways: https://factorable.net/weakkeys12.extended.pdf https://factorable.net/weakkeys12.extended.pdf