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From: Aragon Gouveia <aragon@phat.za.net>
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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