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Re: questions about RNGs and FIPS 140
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Werner Koch)
Fri Aug 27 12:41:41 2010
From: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:03:49 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20100825203716.GA1717@subspacefield.org> (travis's message of
"Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:37:16 -0700")
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:37, travis+ml-cryptography@subspacefield.org
said:
> 1) Is Linux /dev/{u,}random FIPS 140 certified?
I am nor sure whether it is already certified. However a FIPS mode was
added to Linux featuring an FIPS approved ANSI X9.31 PRNG instead of the
/dev/random. /dev/random is still used for initial seeding.
Salam-Shalom,
Werner
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