[Cryptography] [RNG] on RNGs, VM state, rollback, etc.

Christoph Anton Mitterer calestyo at scientia.net
Fri Oct 18 16:33:14 EDT 2013


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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