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still thinking… if the three-letter-agency has compromised the random number generator, then that means all traffic encrypted by the router may be easier to crack.

What data is encrypted on the router? VPNs, for one. So a VPN, and all the plaintext traffic sent over it, could be made vulnerable.




>What data is encrypted on the router? VPNs, for one.

What sort of VPN are we talking about?


You can run OpenVPN or Wireguard directly on Ubiquiti network equipment for example, and some Ubiquiti EdgeRouter equipment has Cavium CPUs




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