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Michael Creel has announced the release of PelicanHPC 1.5.1 (formerly PrallelKnoppix), a Debian-based live CD designed to make it simple to set up a high-performance computing cluster.

This updates fixes the recent "predictable randomness" vulnerability in Debian's build of OpenSSL and all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade.....

Ben Laurie Blathering: "But now Debian have proved me right (again) beyond my wildest expectations. Two years ago, they 'fixed' a 'problem' in OpenSSL reported by valgrind by removing any possibility of adding any entropy to OpenSSL's pool of randomness..."