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Tails 6.4 Anonymous OS Introduces Random Seed to Strengthen All Cryptography

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9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor
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Tails 6.4 amnesic incognito live system has been released today as the latest stable version of this Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution that protects against surveillance and censorship.

Highlights of Tails 6.4 include the ability to store a random seed on the Tails USB stick to strengthen all cryptography. The devs say that having a secure random number generator is critical for various of Tails' components that rely on cryptography, such as Persistent Storage, Tor, and HTTPS.

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