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Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2013 01:29:00 EST Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca Confirmed! I just ran across this piece from Theodore Ts'o: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6336505 TL;DR: Intel's hardware RNG is compromised by NSA's SIGINT, but Linus Torvalds insisted it be used to generate /dev/random (via http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/12/how-does-nsa-break-ssl.html ) !crypto !surveillance -
Johnny Null (johnnynull)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2013 05:23:33 EST Johnny Null @bobjonkman Thanks for this. But unless I missed something, that was Intel, not Linus. Though I admit this borders nit-picking.
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