full-disclosure - Re: how i stopped worrying and loved the backdoor

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Message-ID: <AANLkTimF+j81fn6dQsWcjsw5MPdcXRjysAnn_=NCEBz1@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 23:42:13 -0200
From: "Marcio B. Jr." <marcio.barbado@...il.com>
To: Marsh Ray <marsh@...endedsubset.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: how i stopped worrying and loved the backdoor

Such a gay thread subject, ain't it?

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Marsh Ray <marsh@...endedsubset.com> wrote:
> On 12/24/2010 07:08 PM, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
>>
>> Don't we have hardware RNG in most motherboard chipsets nowadays?
>>
>> (Not that you should exclusively trust it, but the nature of RNG's is
>> that it's easy to mix in sources.)
>
> Haha, you're going to love this:
>
>> http://code.bsd64.org/cvsweb/openbsd/src/sys/dev/rnd.c?rev=1.106;content-type=text%2Fplain
>>
>>       switch(minor(dev)) {
>>               case RND_RND:
>>                       ret = EIO;      /* no chip -- error */
>>                       break;
>>               case RND_SRND:
>>               case RND_URND:
>>               case RND_ARND_OLD:
>>               case RND_ARND:
>>                       arc4random_buf(buf, n);
>>                       break;
>>               default:
>>                       ret = ENXIO;
>>               }
>
> - Marsh
>
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