Security Advisory 2019-06-13 – Reduced initial randomness on FIPS keys

Security Advisory 2019-06-13 – Reduced initial randomness on FIPS keys(yubico.com)

4 points by digitalnalogika 6 years ago | 2 comments

Rather worrying for a device whose entire purpose is to generate and store keys...

Also especially worrying considering a deliberately 'bad' random number generator is almost the perfect way to subvert a device, since true random is inprovable

andbberger 6 years ago | |

meh this specifically pertains to the 2-factor feature, and if your 2nd factor is a secret you have gone very somewhere.