Re: Proposed PRNG patch

2003-11-03 Thread Ben Laurie
Joe Orton wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 05:16:13AM +, Ben Laurie wrote: > >>Joe Orton wrote: >> >>>How will this be used to replace the apr_generate_random_bytes >>>interface, or is this just to be used to implement a daemon accessed via >>>the EGD interface (or something like that)? >> >>

Re: Proposed PRNG patch

2003-11-03 Thread Joe Orton
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 05:16:13AM +, Ben Laurie wrote: > Joe Orton wrote: > > How will this be used to replace the apr_generate_random_bytes > > interface, or is this just to be used to implement a daemon accessed via > > the EGD interface (or something like that)? > > The latter is the gener

Re: Proposed PRNG patch

2003-11-02 Thread Ben Laurie
Joe Orton wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 03:52:41PM +, Ben Laurie wrote: > >>Ben Laurie wrote: >> >> >>>Comments? >>> >>>Note that this supplies the underlying PRNG - I anticipate wrapping it >>>up in a daemon for normal use. As discussed with some members of the >>>team, we think that shou

Re: Proposed PRNG patch

2003-11-01 Thread Ben Laurie
Bill Stoddard wrote: > Ben Laurie wrote: > >> Bill Stoddard wrote: >> >>> Does Aaron Gifford have the rights to all the code submitted under his >>> copyright? >> >> I have no idea. Feel free to ask. > > Since you are an APR PMC member and are about to commit the code to an > APR repository, isn

Re: Proposed PRNG patch

2003-11-01 Thread Joe Orton
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 03:52:41PM +, Ben Laurie wrote: > Ben Laurie wrote: > > > Comments? > > > > Note that this supplies the underlying PRNG - I anticipate wrapping it > > up in a daemon for normal use. As discussed with some members of the > > team, we think that should be a sub-project o

Re: Proposed PRNG patch

2003-10-31 Thread Bill Stoddard
Ben Laurie wrote: Bill Stoddard wrote: Does Aaron Gifford have the rights to all the code submitted under his copyright? I have no idea. Feel free to ask. Since you are an APR PMC member and are about to commit the code to an APR repository, isn't the task of vetting the code your responsibility?

Re: Proposed PRNG patch

2003-10-31 Thread Ben Laurie
Bill Stoddard wrote: > Does Aaron Gifford have the rights to all the code submitted under his > copyright? I have no idea. Feel free to ask. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he do

Re: Proposed PRNG patch

2003-10-31 Thread Bill Stoddard
Does Aaron Gifford have the rights to all the code submitted under his copyright? Bill

Re: Proposed PRNG patch

2003-10-31 Thread Jim Jagielski
David Reid wrote: > > +1 - commit that sucker :) > > Once it's in the tree then we can look at the thread safe issues :) > Agreed. :) -- === Jim Jagielski [|] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [|] http://www.jaguNET.com/

RE: Proposed PRNG patch

2003-10-31 Thread Sander Striker
> From: David Reid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 11:58 AM > +1 - commit that sucker :) > > Once it's in the tree then we can look at the thread safe issues :) Very true. And bottom line, I don't understand how a PRNG works, and in short the patch. I know we need a

Re: Proposed PRNG patch

2003-10-31 Thread David Reid
+1 - commit that sucker :) Once it's in the tree then we can look at the thread safe issues :) david > Ben Laurie wrote: > > > Comments? > > > > Note that this supplies the underlying PRNG - I anticipate wrapping it > > up in a daemon for normal use. As discussed with some members of the > > tea

Re: Proposed PRNG patch

2003-10-30 Thread Ben Laurie
Ben Laurie wrote: > Comments? > > Note that this supplies the underlying PRNG - I anticipate wrapping it > up in a daemon for normal use. As discussed with some members of the > team, we think that should be a sub-project of APR, apr-prngd. > > Note that for some applications, direct access to t

RE: Proposed PRNG patch

2003-10-30 Thread Sander Striker
> From: Ben Laurie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 2:20 PM > Comments? Where's the patch? > Note that this supplies the underlying PRNG - I anticipate wrapping it > up in a daemon for normal use. As discussed with some members of the > team, we think that should be

Proposed PRNG patch

2003-10-30 Thread Ben Laurie
Comments? Note that this supplies the underlying PRNG - I anticipate wrapping it up in a daemon for normal use. As discussed with some members of the team, we think that should be a sub-project of APR, apr-prngd. Note that for some applications, direct access to the PRNG makes sense. Also note th