This post was updated on December 16 to make clear that for most of FreeBSD's history, it wasn't possible to use RDRAND and Padlock as the sole source of random numbers fed to the /dev/random engine.
Random number generation is a key component of secure encryption. Subvert it — by making the random numbers somehow predictable — and you make cracking the encryption easier. So that's what the NSA ...
FreeBSD, the open-source operating system, announced that it will no longer support Intel’s RdRand and Via Technology’s Padlock on-chip random number generators (RNGs) moving forward in new versions ...
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