[Cryptography] What's a Plausible Attack On Random Number Generation?

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Fri Nov 1 22:55:52 EDT 2013


On 2013-11-01 04:48, David Mercer wrote:
> "First boot" really refers to "first post-install boot", and is one of
> the lowest entropy points in a systems life-cycle.

The problem seems to be that some software early in the boot process may 
want randomness.

Bad software! Don't do that!


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