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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: Bazille on September 09, 2013, 11:55 am
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https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2013-September/021318.html
A bug has been found in the CPU cycle counter of the MIPS version of the Linux kernel. Instead of returning the number of CPU cycles it always return 0. This counter is used for benchmarks, but sometimes it's also used as a source of entropy for cryptography.
This isn't necessarily a result of the NSA's global war against cryptography, but it may be best to avoid SSL and VPN with MIPS based hardware routers, until there is a kernel update.