{"id":139,"date":"2008-02-10T22:57:52","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T06:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cubist.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/2008\/02\/10\/openbsd-refuses-to-fix-pseudo-random-number-generator-weakness\/"},"modified":"2008-02-10T22:57:52","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T06:57:52","slug":"openbsd-refuses-to-fix-pseudo-random-number-generator-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/2008\/02\/10\/openbsd-refuses-to-fix-pseudo-random-number-generator-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenBSD Refuses to Fix Pseudo-Random Number Generator Weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an <a href=\"http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/it\/08\/02\/10\/0136236.shtml\">article<\/a> from Slashdot, a serious weakness in the random number generator provided by OpenBDS has been found. It is apparently also used in several other BSD operating systems. Some of them has released a fix or are planning to release one. However, OpenBSD refuses to fix it, stating that the problem is irrelevant in the real world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article from Slashdot, a serious weakness in the random number generator provided by OpenBDS has been found. It is apparently also used in several other BSD operating systems. Some of them has released a fix or are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/2008\/02\/10\/openbsd-refuses-to-fix-pseudo-random-number-generator-weakness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secblog.cs.washington.edu\/Security\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}