[SECURITY] [DLA 2527-1] snapd security update

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Debian DLA-2454-1 : rclone security update

golang-go.crypto was recently updated with a fix for CVE-2019-11840. This in turn requires all packages that use the affected code to be recompiled in order to pick up the security fix. CVE-2019-11840 An issue was discovered in supplementary Go cryptography libraries, aka...

The Linux CSPRNG Is Now Good!

Oceans of ink and hours on stage have been spent to convince the world that the best random number generator is /dev/urandom, the kernel one. And it is, and its always been. However, an uncomfortable truth was that the Linux CSPRNG really could have been better than it was. Userspace CSPRNGs...

CVE-2019-11840

An issue was discovered in the supplementary Go cryptography library, golang.org/x/crypto, before v0.0.0-20190320223903-b7391e95e576. A flaw was found in the amd64 implementation of the golang.org/x/crypto/salsa20 and golang.org/x/crypto/salsa20/salsa packages. If more than 256 GiB of keystream i...

CVE-2019-11840

An issue was discovered in the supplementary Go cryptography library, golang.org/x/crypto, before v0.0.0-20190320223903-b7391e95e576. A flaw was found in the amd64 implementation of the golang.org/x/crypto/salsa20 and golang.org/x/crypto/salsa20/salsa packages. If more than 256 GiB of keystream i...

Uses insecure CSPRNG (openssl_random_pseudo_bytes())

It's not fork safe In most versions of PHP, it lies about being secure And today I learned that OpenSSL, by default i.e. unchangable from PHP land uses MD5 as a CSPRNG thanks @atoponce I'm stuck between several possible avenues: Release a new version v1.3.0 or most likely v2.0.0 that doesn't rely...

Uses insecure CSPRNG (openssl_random_pseudo_bytes())

It's not fork safe - In most versions of PHP, it lies about being secure - And today I learned that OpenSSL, by default i.e. unchangable from PHP land uses MD5 as a CSPRNG thanks @atoponce I'm stuck between several possible avenues: - Release a new version v1.3.0 or most likely v2.0.0 that...