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Date:      Thu, 29 Feb 1996 18:04:36 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        "Dean M. Phillips" <dphill@inav.net>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: eBones appears free of PRNG bug. 
Message-ID:  <199602291604.SAA04943@grumble.grondar.za>

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"Dean M. Phillips" wrote:
> I have done a quick check of the eBones that is shipped with FreeBSD 2.1R
> and it appears to have already been fixed.  In /usr/src/eBones/include/des.h
> there is a "#define random_key des_random_key".  The random_key function
> appears to have vanished from the sources.

Close. No Cigar. The routine required is des_new_random_key(). This
was added to our libdes by me a while back, and is a part of the new
libdes.

Andrey (ache) added the MIT fixes to eBones, but it is not yet in
STABLE.

M
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