Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Travers Buda
* Ted Unangst ted.unan...@gmail.com [2009-09-15 18:16:47]: First, it uses 128-bits, and second, the practical attacks against blowfish are what exactly? _Only_ 128 bits? It clearly needs more. More bits man, more bits! It's not about the number of bits. -- Travers Buda Third, if you

Re: Where is Secure by default ?

2009-03-10 Thread Travers Buda
frequency. Maliciousness is a lot less frequent, but worse in magnitude... well, I suppose this all depends on how good of an admin you are! -- Travers Buda

Re: OT: Free, online backup service provider compatible with BSD

2009-02-13 Thread Travers Buda
element. i just recently hired one of these companies for $work, and wasn't too comfortable with the mobile advertisements. Use some simple crypto on your backups? -- Travers Buda

Re: Nvidia bug

2009-02-13 Thread Travers Buda
not so aggressive) send in a bug report or I could just get some new hardware. What's the consensus here? -- Travers Buda

Re: USB RFID Reader misreads

2008-11-21 Thread Travers Buda
can tune the behaviour of attached USB Keyboards, so that they (?) somehow give the Reader more time before attempting to read the Card. Thanks and best regards, David A dmesg would help. In all likelyhood, your hardware is not following the HID spec. -- Travers Buda

Re: 2200 MHz on a 2.00GHz

2008-09-02 Thread Travers Buda
) *snip* -- Vladimir Kirillov http://darkproger.net According to intel, your processor does not exist! http://processorfinder.intel.com -- Travers Buda

Re: dvorak keyboard not working

2008-09-02 Thread Travers Buda
only uses /etc/kbdtype if you're running without an xorg.conf. -- Travers Buda

Re: wd0(wdc1:0:0): timeout on openbsd 4.0 macppc

2008-09-02 Thread Travers Buda
a failing disk is what you really want, then I recommend ddrescue http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html gnu bleh. -- Travers Buda

Re: wd0(wdc1:0:0): timeout on openbsd 4.0 macppc

2008-09-02 Thread Travers Buda
* Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-09-02 22:56:49]: On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Travers Buda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If imaging a failing disk is what you really want, then I recommend ddrescue http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html gnu bleh. Not sure what ddresuce

Re: dvorak keyboard not working

2008-09-02 Thread Travers Buda
* Travers Buda [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-09-02 21:33:10]: * Jona Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-09-02 23:53:54]: Of course this sets the layout for the console, not X. Some efforts were made to make X recognize and use the layout used by wscons, however I don't think it recognizes dvorak

Re: OpenBSD at Defcon 16

2008-08-16 Thread Travers Buda
from the internet or the internet from DefCon? -- Travers Buda

Re: atheros - just curious, ot

2008-07-29 Thread Travers Buda
many 802.11 stacks does linux have now? -- Travers Buda

Re: GPL version 4

2008-07-17 Thread Travers Buda
(and actually understanding) the GPL could easily drive a sane man, with no drug abuse or family history of mental illness, completely insane due to its ever-increasing complexity. -- Travers Buda

Re: IBM x335 1u server advice

2008-07-16 Thread Travers Buda
work just fine. -- Travers Buda

Re: UPDATE: mozilla-firefox-3.0

2008-07-16 Thread Travers Buda
is just another way into a box on an increasingly hostile web. -- Travers Buda

Re: This is what Linus Torvalds calls openBSD crowd

2008-07-16 Thread Travers Buda
its actually considered BAD? Linus is a nutjob! -- Travers Buda

Re: Time for OBSD everywhere?

2008-05-16 Thread Travers Buda
system having a majority, and being crappy. -- Travers Buda

Re: Debian libssl security (Cause???)

2008-05-16 Thread Travers Buda
it =). -- Travers Buda

Re: asus eee ethernet and 4.3

2008-05-13 Thread Travers Buda
station. See http://www.openbsd.org/i386-laptop.html -- Travers Buda

on K8M800: k8pnow_read_pending_wait: change pending stuck. hangs machine [solved]

2008-05-08 Thread Travers Buda
the K8M800 unless you have a cache of video cards and you don't mind which one you use. Hell, I'd just avoid the K8M800, the damn integrated video on the chip does not play well with the rest of the chip! Seriously, guys. -- Travers Buda

Re: Question about hard limits

2008-04-21 Thread Travers Buda
__ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/ Also see login.conf(5) and ulimit. -- Travers Buda

Re: Is there a badblocks-equivalent for OpenBSD?

2008-04-20 Thread Travers Buda
of them reduce the reserve storage for bad sectors for that extra storage. Tisk tisk. -- Travers Buda

Re: Is there a badblocks-equivalent for OpenBSD?

2008-04-20 Thread Travers Buda
a quality product. -- Travers Buda

Re: Is there a badblocks-equivalent for OpenBSD?

2008-04-18 Thread Travers Buda
to deal with them on its own and should be replaced. Otherwise you'll see data loss/corruption and a higher probability of a total drive failure. -- Travers Buda

Re: SSD drives: performance gain

2008-04-14 Thread Travers Buda
to hear some about some real world experiences before doling out serious money for the drives. cheers, jake -- Here's some stats for you. http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4258 -- Travers Buda

Re: OpenBSD PRNG DNS Cache Poisoning and Predictable IP ID Weakness - fixed?

2008-03-13 Thread Travers Buda
is not in the algorithm, but in the implementations that need it. You'll probably see this problem crop up over and over and over. I believe what was changed in the Open tree came from / was inspired by DragonFly. -- Travers Buda

Re: The Dilbert Problem...

2008-03-05 Thread Travers Buda
application that is or runs on OpenBSD. It is very likely this is a bug in the firefox/mozilla code which I have suspected before is DNS-related but could be so many other things as well. -- Travers Buda

Re: umsm(4) device attaches to ugen(4) instead

2008-03-05 Thread Travers Buda
dkcsum: sd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b Please send the output of usbdevs -v. -- Travers Buda

Re: umsm(4) device attaches to ugen(4) instead

2008-03-05 Thread Travers Buda
dkcsum: sd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b And did you see this in the man page? CAVEATS For Verizon Wireless (and possibly other services), cards require a one- time activation before they will work; umsm does not currently support this. -- Travers

Re: umsm(4) device attaches to ugen(4) instead

2008-03-05 Thread Travers Buda
* Aaron Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-03-05 14:25:19]: On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Travers Buda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And did you see this in the man page? CAVEATS For Verizon Wireless (and possibly other services), cards require a one- time activation before

Re: More questions on building a release with a read only source tree

2008-02-25 Thread Travers Buda
for security, because that would be inane. -- Travers Buda

Re: Sun Creator 3D hardware wanted

2008-02-25 Thread Travers Buda
? An old ultra 10 for example. Thanks -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett I have a ultra 10 w/creator that I will ship in the 48 continental US. -- Travers Buda

Re: More questions on building a release with a read only source tree

2008-02-25 Thread Travers Buda
* Don Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-25 07:24:45]: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Travers Buda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why on earth are you bothering with this? Please don't tell me it's for security, because that would be inane. I have a heterogeneous collection of machines

Re: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys

2008-02-21 Thread Travers Buda
to get anything off it with the amount of time that our resale or recycle machines are disconnected from power. For the majority of them, this should be on the order of several minutes. Also, anybody who puts confidential information on a craptop is downright stupid. -- Travers Buda

Re: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys

2008-02-21 Thread Travers Buda
place for this since software faults are likely. However, this just lends itself to the absurdity that is overwriting memory: a hardware module to overwrite memory? nuts. -- Travers Buda

Re: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys

2008-02-21 Thread Travers Buda
. -- Travers Buda

Re: amd64 - bootloader and BIOS see 16gb ram, kernel does not

2008-02-11 Thread Travers Buda
4.12.1. The fix involves a boot prompt command and if it works, a line in /etc/boot.conf Good luck. Doug. The developers need hardware to tackle this. -- Travers Buda

Re: Problems with -current in CVS?

2008-01-22 Thread Travers Buda
/files but there is ../../../conf/files (one directory closer to /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf : ie., /usr/src/sys/conf/). Thanks in advance, Colby W. [1] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html -- Travers Buda

Re: Sun Ultra 5

2008-01-17 Thread Travers Buda
a creator3d or xvr500 that will go away. My ultra 5 (without creator) used to be like that. Yeah, a creator3d will do hardware acceleration on the console, but good luck putting that in an ultra 5 case. -- Travers Buda

Re: OpenBSD on ia64

2007-12-20 Thread Travers Buda
itanium processor paper weights. -- Travers Buda

Re: OpenBSD on ia64

2007-12-20 Thread Travers Buda
sure he'll post something here, eventually. diana On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Travers Buda wrote: * Eduardo Alvarenga [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-20 17:13:06]: Any news regarding OpenBSD on Itanium processors? Regards, -- Eduardo Alvarenga Nobody has any hardware that's small enough and does

Re: UUCP to mars

2007-12-15 Thread Travers Buda
. between here and there. By the time the US gets to Mars, we'll have quantum communication: instantaneous across the universe. I can't see anyone other than the US going to Mars. Nanu, Nanu. :) Doug. Yeah quantum entanglement sure would be something neat to exploit. -- Travers Buda

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Travers Buda
not pay for, so for all intents and purposes to you, it is free. I'll buy you one sometime. Hehe. -- Travers Buda

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Travers Buda
* David H. Lynch Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-15 13:27:26]: Travers Buda wrote: * David H. Lynch Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-14 14:39:49]: Put away the licenses and open up your mind. God did not write the licenses, People wrote them. They wrote them to meet specific needs

Re: Play Nice - Real men don't attack straw men (Theo)

2007-12-15 Thread Travers Buda
survive only because we can think. To pass judgement is paramount. Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. -- Francis Bacon You can't go blithely tromping around this world, proclaiming that small pebbles are food and expect to survie. -- Travers Buda

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Travers Buda
is. Atleast it won't result in misleading people like free software can. -- Travers Buda

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-14 Thread Travers Buda
with flash in this camp. However, we do _despise_ flash-based websites and ads. It certainly tops my list of things on the WWW that are unportable, inefficient, and a pain in the ass. Sorry, the only hypocrite here is Stallman; who, incidentally, I did have respect for before this thread. -- Travers

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-14 Thread Travers Buda
people! Stallman, you are so steeped in hypocrisy, you aught to submit a picture of yourself to various dictionaries. P.S. It can't be that difficult to remove the add plugin feature in mozilla firefox. Do you not code anymore? -- Travers Buda

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-14 Thread Travers Buda
about. All they know is free-as-in-beer. Hell, even most of the big linux players don't get it. -- Travers Buda

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Travers Buda
your homework before you accuse people. -- Travers Buda

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-12 Thread Travers Buda
that and gNewSense? Is it the orientation of the bits on their hard drive that matters? How about their neighbor's hard drive? Where do you draw the line? -- Travers Buda

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-11 Thread Travers Buda
suggested. People do not run non free software on these distributions. It's not because they can't, it's because they don't want to. An aside: The GPL does its job, but only if people put that license on their software. So remember--people's wills, not the license. -- Travers Buda

Re: About non-free software in OpenBSD

2007-12-09 Thread Travers Buda
it gets noting accomplished. -- Travers Buda

Re: Code signing in OpenBSD

2007-12-06 Thread Travers Buda
!) And think of all the other ways you could be compromised, which most are much easier to implement. Hardware keyloggers Social engineers Bad passwords Physical Security? etc. And just what are they going to get? Do you have some sort of cloak-and-dagger data on your box? -- Travers Buda

Re: OpenBSD in the webcomic XKCD

2007-11-26 Thread Travers Buda
the comic? meh. I find it more interesting that BSD appearently defaults to OpenBSD and not FreeBSD here. -Nick That's because FreeBSD _is_ linux, with perhaps a bit more mature codebase. =P -- Travers Buda

Re: OpenBSD in the webcomic XKCD

2007-11-26 Thread Travers Buda
always found the immutable bsd.rd to be a safe bet. -- Travers Buda

Re: [plz. help] constant attack from: 201.244.17.162, 222.231.60.88, 82.207.116.209....

2007-11-26 Thread Travers Buda
this guy can get to my box which has pvt IP address from the internet thru the firewall. http://openbsd.org/faq/pf/filter.html Source tracking options is _perfect_ for this. A strong password never hurt either. -- Travers Buda

Re: OpenBSD/i386 won't boot on Transmeta Efficeon CPU

2007-11-24 Thread Travers Buda
* Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-11-24 06:13:45]: *snip* can you build and boot a kernel with option CPU_DEBUG in the config? Actually use option CPUDEBUG, note the missing underscore. -- Travers Buda

Re: howto restored rm-ed files/directory

2007-11-24 Thread Travers Buda
. Yep.. totally agree.. Jesus saves, but Buddha makes incremental backups. -- Travers Buda

Re: OpenBSD/i386 won't boot on Transmeta Efficeon CPU

2007-11-23 Thread Travers Buda
(SMALL_KERNEL) defined(I586_CPU) || defined(I686_CPU) longrun_init(); #endif } -- Travers Buda

Re: OpenBSD from scratch

2007-11-11 Thread Travers Buda
. That's for a different rant though. -- Travers Buda

Re: misc rejects because of sender verify

2007-11-06 Thread Travers Buda
through your ISP's mail servers. This avoids FQDN and dynamic IP issues for me. -- Travers Buda

Re: apm -S freezes the laptop

2007-11-01 Thread Travers Buda
seen it work on any OS, anywhere. And IMHO, it's hopeless, if not a pain in the ass, to get vendor specific specs for every machine out there, test all of them, etc. -- Travers Buda

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

2007-10-25 Thread Travers Buda
is a technology that needs to be built from the ground up, and not brutally hacked ontop of the already horrid x86 architecture. -- Travers Buda

Re: Sun Systems

2007-09-19 Thread Travers Buda
the bucket. He's in France. -- Travers Buda

Re: kernel/5563: ipv6 traffic causes page fault trap

2007-08-23 Thread Travers Buda
- Forwarded message from Travers Buda [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:43:53 -0500 From: Travers Buda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Janjaap van Velthooven [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: kernel/5563: ipv6 traffic causes page fault trap In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Mutt

Re: OpenBSd or HP-UX?

2007-08-22 Thread Travers Buda
that makes the difference here. Oh, and you have much more freedom in picking out your hardware (back to the cheap tangent.) -- Travers Buda

Re: wi0 (pcmcia0): system freeze after pulling card out

2007-07-24 Thread Travers Buda
... starting to understand Miod... maybe it's time to hook up the station 20.) Whatever the real reason, it's a design flaw in the bus, perhaps in the card too, maybe both. -- Travers Buda

Re: How to make screenshot under console ?

2007-06-24 Thread Travers Buda
* Han Boetes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-06-24 19:47:02]: smonek wrote: How to make screenshot under console? With screen you can make screenshot. They're called hardcopies. You could also tip(1) into the box. -- Travers Buda

CVS hosed

2007-05-24 Thread Travers Buda
Well since nobody has posted this to misc@ yet, I suppose I will. It's obvious that CVS is currently in a state of being completely hosed. I'm foaming at the mouth to get that new hppa code... my c360 is all setup to bootstrap me a leet sauce os for my b2000. -- Travers Buda

Re: CVS hosed

2007-05-24 Thread Travers Buda
* Emilio Perea [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-05-24 12:39:51]: On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 11:33:15AM -0500, Travers Buda wrote: Well since nobody has posted this to misc@ yet, I suppose I will. It's obvious that CVS is currently in a state of being completely hosed. The email I got from the cron

Re: Remove x11/ion

2007-04-30 Thread Travers Buda
base it off of. Banana, mofo, do you speak it? But in all seriousness, FreeIon sounds good. Little bit easier to figure out just what the hell it is. Anyone serious about sed'ing this port to hell? -- Travers Buda

Re: pf - drop or return - is stealth mode overrated?

2007-04-24 Thread Travers Buda
!! -- Travers Buda

Re: pf - drop or return - is stealth mode overrated?

2007-04-24 Thread Travers Buda
is a hell of a lot easier than crafting some TCP action to see whether a host is up or not. -- Travers Buda

Re: heads up for current followers: fsck_ffs

2007-04-23 Thread Travers Buda
on the filesystem stuff and not expecting pain and suffering? That sounds like a good idea to me! =) -- Travers Buda

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Travers Buda
right now is Michael Buesch because he realizes the mistake HE made is bigger that what happened with the licensing. -- Travers Buda

Re: Video choppy with mplayer and vlc under xenocara?

2007-03-29 Thread Travers Buda
have a multi-head setup (mga,) and the xvideo extension is now only present on screen 0 with the new xenocara. You can check with xvinfo. I have not looked into this. -- Travers Buda

Re: USB Printer Recommendation

2007-03-21 Thread Travers Buda
the network (you can just do cat blah.ps | nc printer some-port-i-forget. Nmap it to find out.) The guys down at the surplus probably consider it worthless junk, so that should help with your price. -- Travers Buda

Re: Is OpenBSD good/best for my 486?

2007-03-21 Thread Travers Buda
unless you decide to use X, then it's going to be a bit over the line, however, this does not mean it's not going to work. =) -- Travers Buda

Re: Is OpenBSD good/best for my 486?

2007-03-21 Thread Travers Buda
. Or, if you're really impatient and impractical, generate them on a fast machine and copy them over... -- Travers Buda

Re: Two indentical timed cronjobs, one gets ignored

2007-03-19 Thread Travers Buda
to be mentioned in the manpage as a caveat? What does /var/cron/log have to say? -- Travers Buda

Re: BIND9 and /dev/arandom

2007-03-18 Thread Travers Buda
named will continue use the descriptor it opened for /dev/arandom before it did the chroot. -- So, apparently I should always see this message correct? Phusion Yeah. -- Travers Buda

Re: Important OpenBSD errata

2007-03-17 Thread Travers Buda
operating system I have ever worked with. -- Travers Buda

Re: Important OpenBSD errata

2007-03-16 Thread Travers Buda
besides OpenBSD. -- Travers Buda

Re: Contradictory statement on vulnerability

2007-03-16 Thread Travers Buda
. openbsd.org -- Travers Buda

Re: Important OpenBSD errata

2007-03-15 Thread Travers Buda
of linux is anyone's guess). I digress. If you _really_ want to stay ontop of things, you have to take action yourself beyond the cron job that gets your mail. Sorry, that's just the way it is, so I suggest you adapt to it. -- Travers Buda

Re: Important OpenBSD errata

2007-03-15 Thread Travers Buda
than what is freely offered. Example: this thread. If you want to see X feature, hire one of the developers. If you want to keep getting releases, pay Theo's hydroponics.. err electric bill. etc etc -- Travers Buda

Re: Max amount of RAM

2007-03-01 Thread Travers Buda
] -- Travers Buda

Re: Concerning Filesystem Mini-Hackathon and faster kernel building (distcc)

2007-02-27 Thread Travers Buda
is a band-aid for this gaping wound. So, perhaps if you have a few large disks lying around you could donate/loan them? -- Travers Buda

Re: OpenBSD speed on desktops

2007-02-18 Thread Travers Buda
* Travers Buda [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-18 14:42:34]: * Jon Drews [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-18 11:17:08]: On 2/17/07, R. Fumione [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am using OpenBSD on server since few years now, and I am very happy with it's easy maintenance and it's stability. I

Re: OpenBSD's bind: CVE-2007-0493 and CVE-2007-0494

2007-01-30 Thread Travers Buda
. -- Travers Buda

Re: Atheros WIFI card can scan, but can't connect.

2007-01-30 Thread Travers Buda
churn on this lately aside from getting the driver to attach to these new radios. -- Travers Buda

Re: Aironet MPI-350 Wireless

2007-01-29 Thread Travers Buda
efficient. All you're probably going to see with these sorts of attacks is proof-of-concept. If someone was targeting you specifically, there would be easier ways than sploiting a bin firmware. -- Travers Buda

Re: Aironet MPI-350 Wireless

2007-01-29 Thread Travers Buda
* Matthew R. Dempsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-01-29 15:16:15]: On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:30:01PM -0600, Travers Buda wrote: Well I think both are equally dangerous (binary firmware and binary drivers.) They're basically the same thing. My understanding has always been that a bad binary

Re: Aironet MPI-350 Wireless

2007-01-29 Thread Travers Buda
* Lars Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-01-30 10:49:59]: Travers Buda wrote: They're basically the same thing. No they're not. One run on the vendors hardware, the other run on your OS. Two entirely different things. Sorry, I was being nebulous. They're the same thing in the regard

Re: ACPI tests on a Jetway J7F2 board

2007-01-28 Thread Travers Buda
to reduce power usage and extend battery life through the hw.setperf sysctl(3) mechanism. Travers Buda On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:52:08 -0700 Mark Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings: I almost didn't submit this because there were no outright failures, but then I noticed that with acpi

Re: ACPI tests on a Jetway J7F2 board

2007-01-28 Thread Travers Buda
You're not getting hw.setperf with ACPI enabled because ACPI and APM don't and shouldn't coexist. ACPI has a hw.setperf mechanism, but you don't have it enabled in your kernel (I don't know if it's working yet.) Travers Buda On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:15:13 -0700 Mark Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: keep state for http connections

2007-01-25 Thread Travers Buda
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Travers Buda wrote: That is a good point that state table lookups are cheaper. You're right, keep state should be faster. On the other hand, if you are in dire need of more ram, one could put pass in quick proto tcp from any to any port 80 at the top

Re: keep state for http connections

2007-01-24 Thread Travers Buda
72.14.207.99.80: . ack 1 win 16384 (DF) 14:33:47.337444 128.255.167.160.21463 72.14.207.99.80: P 1:479(478) ack 1 win 16384 (DF) See? Google is only talking to me on port 80. And it does not look like rfc2616 mentions any other ports besides 80. Travers Buda

Re: keep state for http connections

2007-01-24 Thread Travers Buda
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:20:46 -0800 Kian Mohageri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/24/07, Travers Buda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last time I checked though, clients only talk with the web server on port 80. So, the only reason you would want to keep state would be if you have a ruleset like

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