Hi Steven, On 15/01/2014 15:23, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > I've no reason to think that VIA or its chip design subsidiary, both > Taiwanese-owned, were involved in the recently disclosed US NSA > anti-encryption programs. But it is clear now that we should not rely > exclusively on hardware RNGs any more. > > This will likely be fixed in stable by disabling this RNG by default, > as upstream have done in stable/8 and stable/9. In jessie/sid, > kfreebsd-9 may soon be superseded by kfreebsd-10.
I've backported the fix to wheezy branch. ISTR you had VIA RNG hardware? If so, please can you test? Note that the fix allows override using hw.nehemiah_rng_enable sysctl. -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52de5a0b.3060...@debian.org
