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FreeBSD to stop using hardware RNGs

2 pointsby prateekjover 11 years ago

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emasteover 11 years ago
Like most of the articles using the FreeBSD developer summit wiki as a source, this one is highly misleading.<p>FreeBSD will not pass these hardware random generators directly to the user via &#x2F;dev&#x2F;random, but will instead use them as entropy sources for the PRNG that already exists.