Re: Possible deadly flaw - compromised software
> For a closed source implementation (eq most Windows programs) there is a danger that a deliberately weakened random number generator is used.
It isn't just closed source with that risk by the way. The fact that such a vulnerability sat there compromising every generated random number on Debian for so many years* without anyone noticing is testament to that. It's also a pretty damn good lesson in 'comment your code if you're doing something that looks a bit unusual'. A simple explanatory comment would have stopped the 2008 'fix' being implemented.
* I don't personally believe this vulnerability was deliberately introduced.