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Re:How to safely generate a random number by pbsd on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @11:20AM (#7305809)
The forward security issues have been fixed for a long time (since Vista I believe): they now use SP800-90A's CTR_DRBG. But the generator continues to be unprotected in user mode, seeded from kernel.
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