On Sat, 14 Dec 2013, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > On 14/12/13 01:08, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Yeah, I think Linux went through similar blindness braindamage sometime ago, > > but blind trust on rdrand has been fixed for a long time now, and it never > > trusted any of the other HRNGs (or used them for anything at all without a > > trip through "rng-tools" userspace until v3.12). > > I seem to remember that Ted T'so's committed the fix for this only after > the release of Linux 3.2, so I assuemd wheezy's kernels might be still > affected?
I'd need to check it througoutly, but almost all important /dev/random changes in Linux were backported to all stable kernels, and thus eventually migrated into the Debian kernel (which is based on 3.2.y-stable plus lots of other backports). -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131214210047.ga29...@khazad-dum.debian.net
