Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

May 20th 2014

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Harvesting Entropy

Mozilla & Firefox supporting DRM, bypassing 2-factor authentication, Windows 8 banned in China, harvesting entropy, and more.

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Steve and Leo examine the practical size of randomness and the challenge of collecting Entropy in a client that may not have any built-in support for providing it, and may also be surrounded by active attackers.

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