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Date:      Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:08:59 +0200
From:      Aragon Gouveia <aragon@phat.za.net>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-08:11.arc4random
Message-ID:  <20081124180859.GA28462@phat.za.net>
In-Reply-To: <200811241747.mAOHlDSE034716@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200811241747.mAOHlDSE034716@freefall.freebsd.org>

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| By FreeBSD Security Advisories <security-advisories@freebsd.org>
|                                          [ 2008-11-24 19:48 +0200 ]
> III. Impact
> 
> All security-related kernel subsystems that rely on a quality random
> number generator are subject to a wide range of possible attacks for the
> 300 seconds after boot or until 64k of random data is consumed.  The list
> includes:

I suppose this would affect the quality of SSH host keys generated at boot
time by RC?


Thanks,
Aragon



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