On May 14, Michael Sh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hi,
For reasons of nostalgia, I went looking for a DEC VAX machine, and ended
up with a few DEC Alpha's. (2) servers (an EB64+ and a PC164LX), a DEC
3100 workstation (3000/300L), and a DEC Multia UDB (sort of an early
version of a
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 02:55:59 -0400
From: mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When that simple test shows it is clearly true that /dev/random
blocks just as stated in the man page. The kernel's RNG may not be
very good, but that is a separate issue.
Yes, it's true that the device
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 10:18:30 -0400
snip
Anyhow, I've gotten a jar and put 128 pennies in it. I'll be sure to
let you know if I find any patterns in the data from that, too. ;)
Dave
Well, I've flipped 512 pennies run them through my base 95 analyzer.
On May 12 at 12:04pm, Derek Martin wrote:
I'm curious if anyone has any really good references to the SCSI debugging
information logged by the kernel.
From what I've seen, most of what the kernel logs is either details of how
the driver is failing to progress (not terribly useful unless you're
On May 15, 2005, at 12:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I've flipped 512 pennies run them through my base 95 analyzer.
:)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] cat flips.txt | ./bin2dec.pl | ./dec2base95.pl
7xW#mknuHpMRM*Mp\9R CRM/99HpMz%fHf\Rf/faf9WRpWHH%a\a W4Wu
azzuppRWa94f\9f4O
Are you sure bin2dec and
On May 11 at 2:28pm, Jeff Kinz wrote:
Shitting on the floor is doing what comes naturally.
Discussions about the impacts of technology do come about naturally as part
of discussions about technology.
The SOTF point is irrelevant and raising it does no one credit.
It is not irrelevant, although
On May 12 at 12:34am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, I'm going to officially request a KILLTHREAD on this topic This
thread's grown six heads, four arms, eighteen legs, and just gotten way out
of control
All in favor, type:
!kill -TERM $PPID
Okay, but what will that do%+$NO CARRIER
Let's just make a list rule that if you post OT stuff without [OT] in
the subject then you're asking for us to see if you have a currently
patched version of OpenSSL on your server. Simply enforcing [OT]
should make most everybody happy.
I'll start the ball rolling with a procmail recipe:
:0
On May 10, 2005, at 14:30, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
The crucial element in the password thefts that provided access
at Cisco and elsewhere was the intruder's use of a corrupted version
of a standard software program, SSH.
So, what's a 'corrupted version'?
To add some more paranoia to the fire:
For those of you who've been waiting to see what patterns I can find
in the number pi uh, oh... wrong movie. I have good news: the
universe ISN'T falling apart! I recoded my Perl scripts in LISP (the
language I should have coded it in, anyway... but I was trying to be a
Perl geek and use
On May 15 at 6:45pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It may seem that way at first thought, but it is not the case. It
is entirely possible to randomly generate the same value repeatedly
in sequence. Statistically, it is, in fact, equally likely that you
will generate 79 '6's as 79 characters
On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 15:41 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
Let's just make a list rule that if you post OT stuff without [OT] in
the subject then you're asking for us to see if you have a currently
patched version of OpenSSL on your server. Simply enforcing [OT]
should make most everybody
From: Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 20:42:38 -0400 (EDT)
snip
If the series is statistically random, then the probability of getting
*any*
set of N characters it the same. If you have a statistically random penny,
for example, and you flip it 20
My 2 cents worth...
In my wasted youth I experimented with random number generator algorithms of
various kinds. One amusing but useful tool that can act as a fairly good
eliminator of many such schemes is to convert the output into a graphical
plot. It often doesn't matter too much how this is
From: David Ecklein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 21:49:06 -0400
My 2 cents worth...
In my wasted youth I experimented with random number generator algorithms of
various kinds. One amusing but useful tool that can act as a fairly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For a "truly random" source, it
might be best to use a good white
noise source, such as a properly chosen and biased point contact
silicon diode or the like. For something in between and completely
accessible to a software approach, the computer clock could be
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