[CentOS] Can we trust RedHAt encryption tools?

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Sat Jan 11 01:35:06 UTC 2014


On 01/09/2014 02:52 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Not quite - anyone mandated to POSIX standards are effectively mandated to
> use the compromised algorithms, as I understand it.

That's news to me. Citation?

Recently, there was a discussion amongst BSD devs and they concluded 
that they don't trust hardware RNG either, deciding instead to add their 
randomness to other sources before going to /dev/random.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/we-cannot-trust-intel-and-vias-chip-based-crypto-freebsd-developers-say/

Lastly, we should all thank this neckbeard who's been banging the gong 
all along, and was right:

http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2013/07/15/

-Ben



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