[Cryptech Tech] ubuntu for the win!

[Leif Johansson]

On 02/28/2015 11:08 PM, Russ Housley wrote:
> Leif:
> 
>>>>> fwiw ndn has a polliate server on random.nordu.net fed by a pair of
>>>>> idquantique optical quantum devices
>>>>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features#prng-cloud
>>>>
>>>> and gchq has a polliate server ....
>>>
>>> The pages says that it provides a secure way to seed the PRNG.  How?  It does not say how the authentication or trust relationships are handled.
>>
>> you get what tls gives you
>  
> This is a great example of a web PKI failure.  One needs to be much more picky about potential sources for PRNG seed than TLS for random web pages.
> 
> Russ
> 

agreed