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

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Re: Security Advisory 2019-06-13 – Reduced initial randomness on FIPS keys

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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

Re: Security Advisory 2019-06-13 – Reduced initial randomness on FIPS keys

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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

meh this specifically pertains to the 2-factor feature, and if your 2nd factor is a secret you have gone very somewhere.