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FreeBSD Developers Will Not Trust Chip-Based Encryption

Posted by Soulskill on from the fool-me-once,-shame-on-you dept.

New submitter srobert writes "An article at Ars Technica explains how, following stories of NSA leaks, FreeBSD developers will not rely solely on Intel's or Via's chip-based random number generators for /dev/random values. The values will first be seeded through another randomization algorithm known as 'Yarrow.' The changes are effective with the upcoming FreeBSD 10.0 (for which the first of three planned release candidates became available last week)."

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  1. Very Smart Move by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They have every reason NOT to trust the chips. Trust, but verify is always the correct way.