Re: how to allocate a TCP port?

2013-10-21 Thread Roger Light
Hi Paul, You may be interested in the ekeyd package, it already does a lot of what you are proposing. Cheers, Roger On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Paul Elliott pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com wrote: I am currently working on a way that computers with hardware random numbers generators can

how to allocate a TCP port?

2013-10-20 Thread Paul Elliott
I am currently working on a way that computers with hardware random numbers generators can share random numbers with computers that do not have hardware random number generators. It looks like everything can be done with simple scripts so that no new low level source code needs to be written.

Re: how to allocate a TCP port?

2013-10-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Elliott pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com writes: In any case, the sender and reciever need to share a privledged port. What is the official way of getting one of these allocated in /etc/services? https://www.iana.org/form/ports-services However, if by privileged port you mean a port number

Re: how to allocate a TCP port?

2013-10-20 Thread Paul Elliott
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 04:39:09PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: https://www.iana.org/form/ports-services However, if by privileged port you mean a port number lower than 1024, note: User port numbers range between 1024 and 49151. If you wish to register a system port — those