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Jason Donenfeld (author of Wireguard) replaced Linux’s SHA-1 based PRNG (remember, SHA-1 is cryptographically broken) with BLAKE2. What is shady about it?

You can’t get cryptographically secure random numbers without platform support, so it’s really bad to tell people to avoid the kernel CSPRNG.

parent fanf2 2 years ago

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