Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak

2000-07-24 Thread Jeroen C. van Gelderen
Mark Murray wrote: [...] > > > Asynchonous reseeding _improves_ the situation; the attacker cannot force > > > it to any degree of accuracy, and if he has the odds stacked heavily against > > > him that each 256-bits of output will have an associated reseed, it makes > > > his job pretty damn diff

Re: MS CHAP v2 in -current?

2000-07-24 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 08:29:23AM -0400, Nathan Binkert wrote: > The patch does work for client side. I have verified that I can connect > to a windows server using chap v2, but I forgot to do something for > server. Shouldn't take me long. If you need the server part before > Brian gets back,

Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak

2000-07-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: > 1. The overhead will probably be insignificant. One doesn't >use such vast amounts of random numbers. True, but the effect on slow CPUs for a single read may be signfificant. We'll have to see. > 2. At least the generator gate can be opti

Re: Locale issues on -current

2000-07-24 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Neil Blakey-Milner: > I've had this too. Never have figured what it was about, but it > happened only in X, where I use gnome. /me has the very same problem, running Gnome as well. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 5

Re: Locale issues on -current

2000-07-24 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Viren R.Shah wrote: > >> > [vshah@vorpal] /etc> perl > >> > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > >> > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > >> > LC_ALL = (unset), > >> > LC_CTYPE = "en_US", > >> > LANG = (unset) > >> >

Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak

2000-07-24 Thread Jeroen C. van Gelderen
Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: > > > > Well, a simple scheme which doesn't seem to suffer from any of the > > > vulnerabilities discussed in the schneier papers is to accumulate entropy > > > in a pool, and only return output when the pool is full. i.

FW: Recent make world breakages

2000-07-24 Thread Gray, David W.
Blasted Outhouse mailer. Lets try again. -Original Message- From: Gray, David W. Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 11:15 AM To: 'FreeBSD Current list' Subject: Recent make world breakages Not to exacerbate a sore subject, but... >From what I'm seeing go by, the intention is that a current

Re: buildworld failure

2000-07-24 Thread Leif Neland
> -On [2723 07:15], John Polstra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >Some developers just aren't being careful enough. The biggest problem > >is they don't restore their systems to a 100% pristine state before > >they test. > > Think we could come up with a make cleanworld like target which does >

Re: Locale issues on -current

2000-07-24 Thread Viren R.Shah
> "Neil" == Neil Blakey-Milner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Neil> On Sat 2000-07-22 (00:10), Doug Barton wrote: >> > I installed a recent snapshot of -current (a week ago) and I keep >> > getting the following warnings: >> > >> > [vshah@vorpal] /etc> perl >> > perl: warning: Setting loc

patch for ds1 soundcard

2000-07-24 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
I found on my computer that a ds1 builtin soundcard of type 10 (found in the file) will not init correctly unless the same 400ms wait is applied to it that is applied to type 8 cards. I have included a patch to make this happen. The patch was created against a -STABLE from today, but should not be

Re: buildworld failure

2000-07-24 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [2723 07:15], John Polstra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >Some developers just aren't being careful enough. The biggest problem >is they don't restore their systems to a 100% pristine state before >they test. Think we could come up with a make cleanworld like target which does just that? 't

Recent make world breakages

2000-07-24 Thread Gray, David W.
Not to exacerbate a sore subject, but... >From what I'm seeing go by, the intention is that a current make world is supposed to work from -stable. OK, what about make release? The reason I am asking, is that I'm actually running current on a laptop, and for various reasons, its far easier to be

pcvt works

2000-07-24 Thread Hellmuth Michaelis
Strange but true, i cvsupped a tree yesterday (and another on another machine today) and on both machines a pcvt-configured kernel now works again and does not panic any longer (same config files & hint files). hellmuth -- Hellmuth MichaelisTel +49 40 55 97

Re: DHCP client problem?

2000-07-24 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 01:58:47PM +0900, Seigo Tanimura wrote: > Did you see this log? > On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 02:53:11 -0700 (PDT), > "David E. O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: I'll take a look at this on Monday. Thanks! for the bug reports -- just what I wanted to hear before I thought abou

Re: buildworld failure

2000-07-24 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 02:49:02PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Did we bump the libc version number when the strtofflags/fflagstostr > functions went in? Nope, the added functionality didn't change any of the existing interfaces, so it no longer meets our requirements for a shlib version bump

Re: Locale issues on -current

2000-07-24 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Sat 2000-07-22 (00:10), Doug Barton wrote: > > I installed a recent snapshot of -current (a week ago) and I keep > > getting the following warnings: > > > > [vshah@vorpal] /etc> perl > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > >

Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak

2000-07-24 Thread Stefan `Sec` Zehl
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 03:06:34PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stefan `Sec` Zehl writes: > >With the current approach it has a 256bits key. This is, in my eyes, not > >good. Although yarrow is nice, It's suited for any kind of key > >generation. > > The first

Re: Netscape

2000-07-24 Thread rosti
Adam wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Trevor Johnson wrote: > > >> > Are the fixed in Netscape 4.74 bugs not critical for release? > >> > >> Who knows? I don't know of any changelog for Netscape. > > > >The release notes are at > >http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/4.7/relnotes/unix-4.74.html#what