[CentOS] Can we trust RedHAt encryption tools?

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> On 01/09/2014 05:28 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
>> On 1/9/2014 2:20 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
>>> It might be easier to compromise security of commercial products as
>>> source code is not available. they seem to have succeeded in compromising
>>>> STANDARDS and ALGORITHMS, to heck with implementations.
>
> Only algorithm they compromised was an RNG that got pretty strong thumbs
> down from the real cryptographers.  They have not compromised any IETF
> standard; maybe kept quite about a problem, but have not put holes in
> any.  Most of our problems with TLS is implementations and backwards
> compatiblity options.

Not quite - anyone mandated to POSIX standards are effectively mandated to
use the compromised algorithms, as I understand it.

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