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New Linux kernel bolsters random number generation

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SUSPICIOUS

Every time I look into kernel random, I see obvious signs of back-door sketchiness everywhere (hint: throw some printf()'s into the seed calls and generate some keypairs).

It's a trivial no-brainer to XOR or otherwise securely mix multiple algorithms, but we keep seeing everyone throw out one basket and use another one to continually keep all our eggs in.

Why are we putting 100% of our faith into just one algorithm designed by just one country all the time? There's dozens of them out there, from many different countries.

We should be COMBINING the output of a range of hash functions sourced from a number of different countries who are known not to co-operate with one-another. that's the only possible way to guarantee security.

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