[nycbug-talk] FreeBSD abandoning hardware randomness

Isaac (.ike) Levy ike at blackskyresearch.net
Wed Dec 11 09:37:59 EST 2013


On December 10, 2013 09:12:40 PM EST, James E Keenan 
<jkeen at verizon.net> wrote:

> Article here:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/09/freebsd_abandoning_hardware_randomness/

This made the rounds in ARS yesterday too,
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/we-cannot-trust-intel-and-vias-chip-based-crypto-freebsd-developers-say/

--
While it's all on our mind, here's an excellent old article detailing 
random facilities, focused on practical use of OpenBSD and FreeBSD,
https://calomel.org/entropy_random_number_generators.html

Best,
.ike





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