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Re:How secure is Linux's random number generator? by tankenmate on Saturday July 13, 2013 @05:42PM (#6038883)
Whereas with closed source you would almost never know. Crypto is very hard to do properly, but at least with open source you have the possibility of independent third party analysis.
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Re:How secure is Linux's random number generator? by lmm on Sunday July 14, 2013 @06:03AM (#6040479)
Wasn't the debian vulnerability discovered because someone noticed that two different servers had the same key? That would have gone down exactly the same with closed source.
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