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A comment on Security Advisory 2019-06-13 – Reduced initial randomness on FIPS keys.

Re:Security Advisory 2019-06-13 – Reduced initial randomness... by londons_explore on Monday July 01, 2019 @01:48AM (#20322763)
Rather worrying for a device whose entire purpose is to generate and store keys...

Also especially worrying considering a deliberately 'bad' random number generator is almost the perfect way to subvert a device, since true random is inprovable

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Re:Security Advisory 2019-06-13 – Reduced initial randomness... by andbberger on Monday July 01, 2019 @12:30PM (#20326990)
meh this specifically pertains to the 2-factor feature, and if your 2nd factor is a secret you have gone very somewhere.
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