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Re: FreeBSD's urandom versus random
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Thu Jan 6 19:44:06 2005
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From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: iang@systemics.com, perry@piermont.com
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 21:04:19 +1300
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
>Not the 5.3 version but I have looked a bit at earlier versions. I was pretty
>scared, frankly.
The "improved" homebrew RNG covers all 5.x versions AFAIK. The OS X guys did
the same thing BTW, both OSes use a weird Yarrow-derived implementation and
have /dev/urandom pretending to be /dev/random (i.e. /random lies about
entropy).
Peter.
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