Recent traffic on this list is addressing OpenBSD issues with respect to randomness for improving security.
There is an excellent survey published today of problems with Internet of Things security, which in turn affects O/S development, written by two prominent cryptographers, one of whom is the co-inventor of public key cryptography: James P. Hughes and Whitfield Diffie The Challenges of IoT, TLS, and Random Number Generators in the Real World: Bad random numbers are still with us and are proliferating in modern systems Queue 20(3) 18--40 May 2022 https://doi.org/10.1145/3546933 One of its 20 references is a 2016 paper that reports Internet measurements on the extent of key weakness: Weak Keys Remain Widespread in Network Devices https://doi.org/10.1145/2987443.2987486 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of Utah - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: be...@math.utah.edu - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 be...@acm.org be...@computer.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------