Aug. 10, 2023, 11:12 a.m. | Bruce Schneier

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Cryptographic flaws still matter. Here’s a flaw in the random-number generator used to create private keys. The seed has only 32 bits of entropy.


Seems like this flaw is being exploited in the wild.

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