Not to be cranky, but the subject line was slightly deceptive -
fixed. ;)
Amazing tale though. There's just so much to marvel at here.. E.g. is
anyone else bothered by the apparent strong dependence of the OpenSSL
PRNG on uninitialised memory for entropy (since when does
"uninitialised" == "random")?
The blame game at:
http://www.links.org/?p=327
is fascinating.
regards,
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