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Attacking the iOS 7 early_random() PRNG
Attacking the iOS 7 early_random() PRNG
posted by Tarjei Mandt @ 3/12/2014 09:04:00 PM  

Back in 2012, Mark and I detailed a number of iOS kernel mitigations that were introduced in iOS 6 to prevent an attacker from leveraging well-known exploitation techniques such as the zone free list pointer overwrite. Most of these mitigations rely on entropy (of varying degree) provided by the kernel, and are therefore supported by a separate random number generator known as the early_random() PRNG. As this generator is fundamental to the robustness of these mitigations, and has received additional improvements in iOS 7, it is unarguably a very interesting target that deserves further study.
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