Usefulness of offloading cryptographic hashing of passwords

2013-08-09 Thread Nathan Goings
I recently read an article from facebook on password cracking. It got me thinking about how useful dedicated hardware might be for hashing passwords. Source: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of-your-passwords/ Fairly basic stuff (MD5, brute & dictionary

Re: How to select NAT port variations.

2013-08-07 Thread Nathan Goings
On 8/7/2013 2:09 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: Normally port-restricted cone, or with static-port it's similar to symmetric (but obviously static-port can't work when two internal machines use the same port). With increasing use of cgnat in some large service provider networks you can be sure to s

How to select NAT port variations.

2013-08-06 Thread Nathan Goings
I'm dealing with old software that uses old NAT traversal techniques. I specifically need to select the NAT variation as defined by RFC 3489 (section 5). Generally I've used nat-to's 'static-port' option and gotten around this issue. After adding some clients host-side, it seems like NAT tra

Re: Compilers in OpenBSD

2013-08-01 Thread Nathan Goings
I've always taken for granted the compiler I used -- until I read this thread. I've used buggy compilers before, such as fxc. I was even greatly affected by a bug in gcc and Apple. Although it caused me to contentedly switch to Microsoft, I still did not acknowledge my compiler's performance

Re: IDE disk erasing/zeroing at ~2.4MB/s

2013-07-12 Thread Nathan Goings
On 7/12/2013 5:12 PM, Alexander Hall wrote: use the raw device, /dev/rwd0c, not the block device. Tried: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0c bs=64k It runs at ~72MB/s. Thanks!

Re: IDE disk erasing/zeroing at ~2.4MB/s (full dmesg)

2013-07-12 Thread Nathan Goings
5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7 it0 at isa0 port 0x2e/2: IT8718F rev 1, EC port 0x290 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using ex

IDE disk erasing/zeroing at ~2.4MB/s

2013-07-12 Thread Nathan Goings
I have a disk -- IIRC, Seagate Barracuda 160gb 7200RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0GB/s dmesg: wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 152626MB, 312579695 sectors wd0 (pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 6 However, when I run `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/wd0c bs=1M' After 3-

Re: Handling nested partition mounts with NFS (/usr/src)

2013-07-05 Thread Nathan Goings
On 7/5/2013 8:50 PM, Andres Perera wrote: so yes that indeed seems like crazy things in windows The documentation says to send a HUP signal to mountd to reload the changes in /etc/exports. However, after making changes, I am still able to mount *and* open files from entries I removed in /etc

Re: Handling nested partition mounts with NFS (/usr/src)

2013-07-05 Thread Nathan Goings
On 7/5/2013 7:33 PM, Andres Perera wrote: you want nested nfs mounts which nfsv3/2 can't provide the export is associated to the mount point, it won't cross device limits either put /usr/src in the same file system, or use another nfs host Thanks! I think for now, I'll just export /usr/src/s

Handling nested partition mounts with NFS (/usr/src)

2013-07-05 Thread Nathan Goings
I just setup NFS, and have gotten it working with my Windows 7 machine. Basically, I'm working on a driver and want to use a graphical IDE. /etc/exports: # /usr -maproot=root -alldirs -network=192.168.37 -mask=255.255.255.0 /usr/src -maproot=root -alldirs -network=192.168.37 -mask=255.255.255.0

Re: Compiling and debugging custom ralink driver for 5.3 GENERIC (release)

2013-07-04 Thread Nathan Goings
On 7/4/2013 10:27 AM, Remco wrote: It has an AUTOCONF_VERBOSE define that can be used to get more verbose output, though I don't remember how useful it is. Looking at config(8), I think you should be able to set it in your copy of the GENERIC file as: option AUTOCONF_VERBOSE=1 ugh, I enabled AUTO

Re: Compiling and debugging custom ralink driver for 5.3 GENERIC (release)

2013-07-04 Thread Nathan Goings
On 7/4/2013 10:27 AM, Remco wrote: On Wednesday 03 July 2013 19:11:19 Nathan Goings wrote: ... I would think if the attach failed it would be in /var/log/messages. How would I debug this? If the attach is failing, I might try crafting it to use a different driver. (guess I should try printf

Re: Compiling and debugging custom ralink driver for 5.3 GENERIC (release)

2013-07-03 Thread Nathan Goings
Thanks for your response! On 7/3/2013 1:07 AM, Remco wrote: AFAIK this is step one. Assuming you added the PCI IDs correctly, the driver's attach function should run. However, to the best of my understanding, you chose a more or less random attach function for your unsupported device. My guess i

Compiling and debugging custom ralink driver for 5.3 GENERIC (release)

2013-07-02 Thread Nathan Goings
I purchased an Edimax EW-7128Gn that contains a ralink RT3060 chip and it's unrecognized. dmesg: vendor "Ralink", unknown product 0x3060 (class network subclass miscellaneous, rev 0x00) at pci4 dev 0 function 0 not configured The documentation says a/g/n but this is a b/g/n. Ralink's drivers