Libgcrypt/GnuPG RNG CVE

Serious GPG RNG 18 year bug discovered.

Damage seems limited at this point with no need to revoke keys. However this is a “brown paper bag” level advisory.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-08/msg00008.html

CVE-2016-6316


Really goes to show that you must only trust widely studied crypto implementations and keep your fingers crossed that nothing terrible is lurking somewhere in the code-base.

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