Re: Etnernal & infernal browser woes

2017-04-30 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Just wanted to mention the firefox extension umatrix. I find it much better than noscript for controlling page speed. That said I only *notice* slowness compared to like xombrero on older machines.

Playstations and PF de-fragmentation

2017-04-30 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I find that to prevent connection timeouts on playstations, the following is required. Hopefully they will fix their packet AND connection handling one day. match from ! $ps3 scrub(tcp reassembly) match from $ps3 scrub(without tcp reassembly)

Re: Playstations and PF de-fragmentation

2017-05-03 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 3 May 2017 08:02:10 +0200 > Thanks for sharing. > I’ll re-use this at home. > > Br > > > 1 maj 2017 kl. 01:43 skrev Kevin Chadwick : > > > > > > I find that to prevent connection timeouts on playstations, the > > following is requi

Re: OT: Recommendations for a CMS?

2017-05-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
erpnext.com is the most featurefull free erp I have found, including cms. may take a little work to port to OpenBSD and unfortunately uses nodejs which may violate the w^x.

Re: httpd and Curve25519 (X25519)

2017-05-17 Thread Kevin Chadwick
It would be nice, but thought that I would add that the criticism of secp256r1 in the eyes of some major cryptographers has moved from far fetched but being unable to disprove the criticism to making no practical sense of being true. On 17 May 2017 19:05, "Bryan" wrote: > > > OpenBSD 6.1 httpd i

openssh nistp521 advertised as supported but no host key available by default

2017-05-23 Thread Kevin Chadwick
If a client (openssh, putty) insists on nistp521 as openssh offers in the debug dialogue then the connection fails or falls back to nistp256. If you create a nistp521 host key and add it to sshd_config then nistp521 is used successfully. Not sure if nistp256 could use a nistp521 key or if this is

Re: Gina/Adityha, followup on donation request re OpenPower devices Re: Interest in POWER platform?

2017-05-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 24 May 2017 23:30:33 -0700 > I can't tell, are you trolling these people? > > Or, do you sincerely find these to be an effective set of techniques > to convince other people of your beliefs? IBM's revenues have been falling for a while so my guess is the only hope being that you expect

Re: Can I bind USB/other interface/device number (e.g. cdceX) to particular MAC, USB serial number or the like?

2017-06-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 2 Jun 2017 08:25:57 -0400 > Linux's (and Windows and Solaris and ...) attempts to "fix" this > problem is one of the reasons I'd consider Linux (and Windows > and ...) crappy. A complicated solution that creates far more > problems than it ever solves, and usually at the worst times possi

Bioctl rounds doesn't appear to affect the passphrase time?

2017-06-23 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 6.1 i386 with syspatch 004 I am running: time /sbin/bioctl -c C -l /dev/vnd0a -r31 softraid0 I guess I am simply seeing my passphrase input time and the round has a marginal affect? Perhaps more on memory usage? Is 31 the highest number of rounds? I started by trying very high values with a

Re: Bioctl rounds doesn't appear to affect the passphrase time?

2017-06-23 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 18:13:20 +0200 > > I started by trying very high values with a simple password and > > expected to have to wait a long time but it was always around 7 > > seconds? > very high as in -r 2000 ? Yeah, 2048? Is there a MAX?

Re: Bioctl rounds doesn't appear to affect the passphrase time?

2017-06-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 20:24:24 +0200 > > > > I started by trying very high values with a simple password and > > > > expected to have to wait a long time but it was always around 7 > > > > seconds? > > > very high as in -r 2000 ? > > > > Yeah, 2048? Is there a MAX? > Not really. > > O

Re: Bioctl rounds doesn't appear to affect the passphrase time?

2017-06-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
the noise. On 25 Jun 2017 6:17 pm, "Ted Unangst" wrote: > Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 20:24:24 +0200 > > > > > > > > > > I started by trying very high values with a simple password and > > > > > &

Re: Can I use OpenBSD in a virtual machine, for example, VirtualBox?

2017-06-27 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Last I checked it did. I've even had Windows 8 hard lockups upon install of virtualbox. I use vmware or microsofts hyperv on pro works well. Microsofts networking setup makes it especially easy to get a built in openbsd firewall in Windows. Just turn ip support off on the physical interface and hav

Random boot seed cron job for unclean shutdowns?

2017-08-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I've noticed disk checks on a colleagues system many times and will ask why on Monday and advise that whilst OpenBSD is rock solid it should still be shutdown gracefully. I am sure this has already been considered but I shall ask anyway just in case. Despite running RO root systems in some cases

Re: gmail and hotmail blocking mail sent from my IP

2017-08-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I understand that given everyone uses gmail, hotmail or mail provided by some multinational hosting service they assume mail coming from residential connections cannot be other thing but spam sent from hacked machines. But someone paying for a static IP in a residential connection is the opposite

Re: softraid crypto seem really slower than plain ffs

2017-09-17 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:24:32 +0200 > I noticed that there were a huge difference between > plain and encrypted filesystem using OpenBSD. I'm not a developer but I know 6.1 moved to a shiny new side channel resistant AES. I seem to remember Theo saying that if it is that slow then even worse; p

Wireless devices for a new product

2017-09-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
We are designing a PCB board that will run OpenBSD and wish to build in wifi and 3g/UMTS/LTE devices whilst avoiding PCIEX as those are more expensive than a module. I assume ar9280 is still the recommended wifi chipset out of all including surface mount devices? Are there any opinions on a reli

Re: Wireless devices for a new product

2017-09-20 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:33:46 +0200 > On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 03:00:15PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > > > We are designing a PCB board that will run OpenBSD and wish to > > build in wifi and 3g/UMTS/LTE devices whilst avoiding PCIEX as > > those are more expensiv

Re: Wireless devices for a new product

2017-09-22 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:42:29 + (UTC) > > Are there any opinions on a reliable or best 3G/UMTS/LTE device. A > > ublox device was being specified but I am guessing that would have > > been more work to get going, though it does come with open source > > Linux drivers, I believe? > > Somethi

Re: FF vs. Chrome/Chromium

2017-09-27 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 14:49:19 +0200 > Hi there! > > Last night I enjoyed reading through the different presentation > slides from EuroBSDcon 2017. > > Relating to Theo's presentation on 'Pledge and > Privsep' (https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2017-pledge.pdf) > he states that firefox can

Re: reordering libraries:/etc/rc[443]: ./test-ld.so: Permission denied

2017-10-10 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 21:43:48 -0500 > Why is this happening, and is there anything that I should do to > correct > The system has been getting more and more dynamic to make attackers fumble in the dark. > the "Permission denied" error? If you prefer then add: /sbin/mount -uo noexec /tmp to

6.2 and OpenSSHD PermitOpen

2017-10-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=150714297627574&w=2 PermitOpen ignores arguments after first two. I guess this is a functionality issue and so might not get an errata? Can I wait for a patch or should I grab a snapshot? Tx, Kc

Re: sysmerge is not needed when updating to 6.2?

2017-10-12 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 09:34:44 + > But I have only one question: Is sysmerge not longer needed for > updating process like in previous releases? It shall tell you if you need to re-run manually in the boot output for edited files.

Re: reordering libraries:/etc/rc[443]: ./test-ld.so: Permission denied

2017-10-12 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 19:35:49 +0100 > From: Kevin Chadwick > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: reordering libraries:/etc/rc[443]: ./test-ld.so: > Permission denied Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 19:35:49 +0100 > > On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 21:43:48 -0500 > > > > Why i

Re: reordering libraries:/etc/rc[443]: ./test-ld.so: Permission denied

2017-10-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 18:16:02 + > See https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=150783205404965 Nice, Thankyou

Re: Automatically restarting services/daemons after crash

2017-10-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 20:38:42 -0600 > > Perhaps I'm mistaken, but it doesn't seem like there's a facility > > for automatically restarting daemons after a crash or similar. Is > > the idea just that daemons should be designed to not crash? > > Yes. Fail closed. It is the only secure thing to

Re: Best Practices python virtualenv

2018-04-30 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 16:46:49 + > Is there a recommended best practice when setting up an environment > with python > virtualenv with regards to wxallowed. sthen@ mentioned a compiler option and that only some modules actually require RWX memory. I don't know the details as to why python call

Re: Looking for discussions/threads on TLS v 1.3 (in OpenBSD context)

2018-05-16 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 16 May 2018 10:21:47 +0200 > Hi all! > > Just out of curious interest, I've been googling a bit to find > discussions or threads related to TLS 1.3, what "you guys" think of > it, and what benefits and drawbacks it brings to the OpenBSD world. > However, I'm either unlucky or a poor goog

Re: Limit CPU usage of a process?

2018-05-27 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Umatrix is a good javascript control extension. Some websites are even running bitcoin mining without asking your permission. Theft of electricity in my book.

Re: Limit CPU usage of a process?

2018-05-30 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 30 May 2018 11:49:04 +0200 > Are these commandline options or stuff you have to program into your > apps? They also seem to be more geared towards giving different > processes different priorities of which gets to use the highest CPU. > You could set your processor performance low with

Re: WEP broken

2018-06-09 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sat, 9 Jun 2018 15:24:14 +0200 > I just "fixed" anther system (this time amd64) for WEP and used again > fresh tarballs and it went fine. Perhaps the mirror updated or had > another issue. I am glad you are making progress but I just want to be sure that you know that WEP can be decrypted i

Re: chromium and firefox - myths and facts?

2018-06-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 07:56:50 -0600 > In a browser, there are 2 main security components you want: The main > security advantage is privsep. The other is W^X jit. Other security > effects will follow from those design choices, especially if you have > privsep. For instance, the chrome privsep i

Re: Theo's BOF at BSDcan

2018-06-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 08:34:55 -0700 (MST) > It was a good talk either way.. It's an issue that keeps getting > larger as time goes on. Whilst I can see but disagree with a point of view that Open Source will be locked out if they don't comply with embargos. I would not participate. After all, t

Re: Theo's BOF at BSDcan

2018-06-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 12:09:00 -0600 > Wow, just look at that sentence. OpenBSD did not break any embargos. > This situation may have no relationship to embargo breaking rumours. > However, false rumours about breaking embargos have to stop, > especially when spread by people at other open source

Re: Theo's BOF at BSDcan

2018-06-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 13:07:23 -0600 > Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > > My point was that signing up in the first > > place should be criticised, if anything. > > So you criticize our previous involvement in embargos where it was > neccessary? I think you had little cho

Re: hyper-threading...

2018-06-22 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:18:31 -0700 > The current release (not distro) already has a fix for it: > https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/6.3/common/010_intelfpu.patch.sig That is the FPU fix. The hyper threading has landed in current/snapshots but not in stable yet. Also, I expect the code

Re: Questions about crypto and USA laws, concerns today

2018-07-24 Thread Kevin Chadwick
You need it licensed to export each product type. Even if it has come from abroad you then need it licensed to export it back out, lol.

Re: X desktop environment & system bus

2018-07-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 10:04:37 +0100 > FVWM is included, which is good enough, lightweight & zippy. > Most apps work fine but evince doesn't want to maximise and minimise under base fvwm1 these days. There are plenty of lightweight options like cwm in base and fvwm2, spectrwm and openbox in port

Re: Best way to serve files to Windows?

2018-07-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 23:20:47 -0400 > sshfs > > This is the Windows client which works well for my lab members who > like to use Windows. > > https://www.nsoftware.com/netdrive/sftp/ Not sure if explorer integration is planned by Microsoft but if you want speed in place of convenience then the

Re: NSA encryption algorithms in Linux kernel, OpenBSD too?

2018-08-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 6 Aug 2018 15:52:11 -0500 > I imagine the answer is this is not implemented or going to be but > saw this article and figured I would ask. > > Seems suspect to not release all details, and have it rejected by ISO > but yet still being put in both the kernel and Android OS. > > https://

Re: Lesser evil

2018-09-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 18:03:06 -0400 > I would not try to dual boot Windows and OpenBSD.  There are too > many disgusting viri out that smash parts of partitions.   OpenBSD > or anything else on the disk is a sitting duck once not active. Don't > do it.  The AV situation on Windows is out of control

Re: Lesser evil

2018-09-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 14:42:39 -0400 (EDT) > Does it make sense to accept such compromises and run Linux for > security and privacy OR is the better security and privacy of Linux > more or less a myth and running Windows would be almost the same in > that respect? > > I understand that any response

Re: Lesser evil

2018-09-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 09:00:11 -0700 > Amazon > Prime Video and some other stuff now. But between my Android phone and > Amazon Fire 5 tablet, I can do that stuff anyway, so not really a big > loss. If I can get it done easily on OpenBSD, I do. WRT Amazon prime I have found that they drop the vid

Re: Lesser evil

2018-09-05 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 17:00:07 -0400 > >> I would not try to dual boot Windows and OpenBSD.  There are too > >> many disgusting viri out that smash parts of partitions.   OpenBSD > >> or anything else on the disk is a sitting duck once not active. > >> Don't do it.  The AV situation on Windows is ou

Re: Lesser evil

2018-09-05 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 11:09:01 +0100 > If the partition is > intact then surely it is not difficult to fix and with some boot > loaders like GAG would likely be unaffected. I should probably say that GAG won't work with UEFI. UEFI sucks in so many ways and yet could have been great.

Re: Lesser evil

2018-09-05 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 11:11:06 -0400 > So: back to the disk-wipe malware (and most other malware). Good > backups limit the impact that. And, you need a diversity of backup > mechanisms to defend against the backups getting hit by malware. *yawn* This is nonsense!

Re: Running your own mail server

2018-09-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 13:30:37 +0100 > OpenBSD is the best OS for both tasks (I've worked for an ISP doing > both roles, on other operating systems). +1 I much prefer the OpenBSD options including spamd and smtpd to the Linux options. Linux options seem to focus on filtering and inspection which

Re: Running your own mail server

2018-09-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:23:36 +0100 > dropping/prevention especially with Linux tools. Postfix is decent > wherever it runs, of course. I guess I meant trapping and timing out not dropping before someone calls foul. It is really interesting which disposable addresses receive spam. Obvious ones b

Re: OT: Firmware encryption hacked?

2018-09-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:23:11 -0400 > > Uhmm … Reality? > > https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/12/security-flaw-in-nearly-all-modern-pcs-and-macs-leaks-encrypted-data/?guccounter=1 > > > > Somewhat better writup from the source: > > https://blog.f-secure.com/cold-boot-attacks/ > > The vulnerabi

Re: Running your own mail server

2018-09-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 13:20:22 -0700 > I don't mind throwing in PostgreSQL, but where are some good > table/column examples? SQL is for centralisation of many servers, it will likely be slower otherwise. There is greyscanner in ports. You can use that as a model for your own scripts to do extra c

Re: Remiss on my personal and server security practices, offering server usage to outsiders

2018-09-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 07:03:56 -0700 > This is the thread that I wished to start that pertains to OpenBSD. > If usage of an SSH app on anyone's phone to access an OpenBSD server > isn't relevant from a security point of view, well, let's ignore the > communication breach from a hardware/software is

Re: Graphical debugger for C/C++ ?

2018-10-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 12:32:06 +0200 > The gdb from packages is then called egdb. Make sure cgdb is using egdb, if you use cgdb too. Documentation is required for gdb unlike eclipse and could be better but once you find the commands you need it is actually more capable than eclipse.

Re: Graphical debugger for C/C++ ?

2018-10-22 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 10/21/18 4:49 PM, Edgar Pettijohn III wrote: I wanted to give cgdb a shot. How do I make sure its using egdb? cgdb --help cgdb -d egdb

Sndiod restart fixes Chrome sndio_output.cc failed to open device

2018-10-24 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I've made the pledge and entered the veil with Chrome. Sound works without restarting sndiod in other applications like aucat and mozilla apps. For some reason the sound does not work in chrome even without enabling the veil but restarting sndiod makes it work. I found some pulseaudio conso

Re: Sndiod restart fixes Chrome sndio_output.cc failed to open device

2018-10-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 10/25/18 9:12 AM, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > i did a quick test, playback works in chrome; any hints on how to > reproduce the sound problem? Thankyou. It is my fault. I must have been tired or it's been working so long without any notice side effects that I missed the obvious. I use the follo

Re: spamd and google smtp ips

2018-10-31 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 10/30/18 8:05 PM, Mario Theodoridis wrote: > I ran into this problem as well. > I ended up writing a script that parses the SPF entries out of the greylist > and > if reasonable, whitelists those ranges and removes the grey > list entries. It runs every 15 minutes. smtpctl now has an spf walk

Re: Bluetooth Support

2018-10-31 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 10/31/18 9:42 AM, Marco Menne wrote: > Bluetooth I never liked. :-) Especially when the Bluetooth spec, specified ecdh without following the security requirements of must validate the curves as clearly laid out by GECC (guide to ECC). I guess Linux and some Intel products did the same or copie

Re: OpenBSD with root FS mounted read only

2018-11-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 11/15/18 4:00 PM, Jarkko Oranen wrote: > However, unless you're using really bad install media (like USB flash > memory or something) I don't think OpenBSD is very likely to suffer a > corrupted filesystem even on power outage unless you're doing very > heavy IO (and even then it's probably fine

Re: OpenBSD with root FS mounted read only

2018-11-16 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 11/16/18 10:06 AM, Daniel Polak wrote: >>> The main benefit of read-only is not having to do disk checks but the time  >>> for >>> root is negligible. >> well, it's not just time fsck'ing, those checks can fail, and then if >> you don't have OOB you have to go visit the machine .. True, but the

Re: OpenBSD with root FS mounted read only

2018-11-16 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 11/15/18 9:53 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > well, it's not just time fsck'ing, those checks can fail, and then if > you don't have OOB you have to go visit the machine .. I assume sync doesn't solve that entirely?

Re: OpenBSD with root FS mounted read only

2018-11-16 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 11/16/18 3:43 PM, Jarkko Oranen wrote: > As far as I'm aware, they are/were originally separated largely due to > historical reasons anyway, not because it's inherently better to keep > them separate. However they came about it is inherently better. Linux often takes the easy rather than best r

Re: With all this CPU/hardware mess, any advice on what to use for an organization?

2018-11-22 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 11/20/18 4:43 PM, Chris Bennett wrote: > AMD? I have read about problems with non-CPU chips being compromised. > Another architecture? I have never used anything other than Intel/AMD. I can't comment on SUN etc. but AMD would be the way to go if you can. Theo has said in a recent presentation

OT: Https very slow since openbsd 6.1/Cipher String

2018-11-22 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 11/21/18 4:00 PM, Gerhard Schweiger wrote on bugs@: > Then comes in openbsd 6.1 amd64, and now the same huge speed difference > between with or without encryption as found on OpenBSD 6.4.Is there any > tweak I could test or is this just bad luck on my VPS or something else? > Speed goes down so

Re: current snapshot breaks ports? (strange libc versioning)

2018-11-22 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 11/22/18 9:24 AM, Karel Gardas wrote: > in an attempt to update today from ftp.spline.de I've been kicked out > after -current update with pkg_add -u complaining about wrong libc > versions. Packages complains like: Likely you have a snapshot or packages out of sync. The packages take a lot lon

Re: Hosting a CDN question

2020-03-17 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2020-03-17 02:48, Aaron Mason wrote: > It's worth noting that httpd didn't go over ~30% in the test, whereas > the Go web server absolutely slammed the system. I wonder if this is linked to Go's concurrency. Personally I would look into tweaking httpd defaults and relayd as GOs net/http runs e

Re: Guidance: How often to update -current?

2020-03-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
My upgrades usually follow chromium pkg upgrades. In fact, I have a script on my phone that greps the chromium pkg version. I test on my own laptop first.

Re: news from my hacked box

2020-04-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2020-04-07 18:21, Rudolf Leitgeb wrote: > You have no chance defending your desktop against each and every attacker, no > matter > which operating system you have running. True if you consider physical attacks and for most hardware, otherwise mostly false. Anything can be hacked is also one o

Re: news from my hacked box

2020-04-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2020-04-08 12:08, Rudolf Leitgeb wrote: >> I believe that is false too. > You're kidding, yes? Did you somehow miss the opensmtp hole? > > https://poolp.org/posts/2020-01-30/opensmtpd-advisory-dissected/ OpenSMTPD does not listen to the internet, by default and even if you do set it to, it onl

Re: news from my hacked box

2020-04-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2020-04-08 18:02, Rudolf Leitgeb wrote: > A public facing server with ftp, http, smtp and sshd would have had to be > patched > in regular intervals to remain reasonably secure. False, even though you have lowered the bar from "anything/everything is hackable". httpd and libressl have done q

Re: secure MTA

2020-04-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2020-04-08 18:39, Claus Assmann wrote: > - Client-side exploitation: This vulnerability is remotely exploitable > in OpenSMTPD's (and hence OpenBSD's) default configuration. Although You missed some out. I assume on purpose. Client-side exploitation: This vulnerability is remotely exploitabl

Re: secure MTA

2020-04-09 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2020-04-09 10:55, Rudolf Leitgeb wrote: > My point was, that security is an ongoing effort. Flaws and new > exploit venues are discovered. There will be different numbers > of flaws for different operating systems, but none remains unscathed > for years. As soon as your server does anything usef

Re: secure MTA

2020-04-09 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> Now this whole debate boils down to "how much effort is someone willing to > invest > into hacking Cord's computers?", and that's something I can't answer. And how competent Cord is at defending his computer because they may not be able to if he is competent enough, which is my point; It is

Re: Has anyone launched Steam for Linux on openbsd?

2020-04-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Not sure but there wouldn't be much incentive anyway as there aren't many steam games that run on Linux!

Re: Iridium vs Chromium

2020-04-12 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On April 12, 2020 7:07:01 PM UTC, Patrick Harper wrote: >The effort to support Chromium and Firefox (sans ESR) on OpenBSD akin >to Windows/macOS/'Linux' has not happened. On atleast current as Theo showed, Chromium is just as well if not better supported on OpenBSD than on Linux, these days. I

Re: Will windows 10 boot after installing openBSD?

2020-04-14 Thread Kevin Chadwick
You can also install Windows after and boot OpenBSD quite easily by following the faq. This is not easy on grub/Linux as grub is greedy. Atleast the guides that I found for grub/Linux, failed to work. I have no interest in running Linux these days though and little interest then. I had the notion t

Re: WLAN throughput less 10Mb/s

2020-04-14 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2020-04-14 09:21, Stefan Sperling wrote: > Regarding other chipsets, if you want the fastest possible AP on OpenBSD > your best option right now is to get a bwfm(4) device, which offloads almost > all of its 802.11 operation into a firmware blob running in the embedded > system on the device. I

Re: List a package's dependencies

2020-04-20 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> There are some unavoidable complexities to the sheer size of the tree, > and the necessities of updates not to fail... I have noticed recently that I occasionally get a gz truncated message (I think due to tcp timeout) and then the dependent package doesn't get updated. I then re-run pkg_add -

Re: List a package's dependencies

2020-04-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2020-04-20 22:47, Marc Espie wrote: > Nope, it's definitely the wrong place to fix things. > > You should fix your pipes (change the timeouts or whatever). > > If worse comes to worst, pkg_add could *possibly* retry running ftp(1), > but that makes little sense. I agree ftp/tcp should be re-

Re: Has anyone launched Steam for Linux on openbsd?

2020-04-22 Thread Kevin Chadwick
der > > There's also the https://www.playonbsd.com/ website that has more > information on gaming with BSD systems. > Both very cool > Kevin Chadwick wrote: >> Not sure but there wouldn't be much incentive anyway as there >> aren't many steam games

Cross platform apps.

2020-04-22 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Go/Golang can cross compile non graphical programs for many systems including OpenBSD from Windows etc. This means that web apps can be almost as cross platform. Of course the browser isn't so easily built/bundled cross platform with many app creation technologies supporting OSX, Windows, Linux an

Re: How to enable TLS 1.3?

2020-04-30 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2020-04-30 13:55, Chad Hoolie wrote: > Any idea about relayd though? I don't see any mentioning of 1.3 in man > relayd.conf: I'm not a dev but tls1.3 dropped RSA and I think requires ecdsa key support that relayd currently lacks. Although httpd was originally based on relayd. I assume the cod

Re: OpenBSD insecurity rumors from isopenbsdsecu.re

2020-05-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2020-05-07 14:10, Consus wrote: > On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 04:00:15PM +0200, i...@aulix.com wrote: >> Dear OpenBSD fans, >> >> Can you please comment negative appraisal from the following website: >> >> https://isopenbsdsecu.re/quotes/ >> >> I did not want to hurt anyone, just looking for a secur

Re: List a package's dependencies

2020-05-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2020-04-21 17:54, Kevin Chadwick wrote: >> Nope, it's definitely the wrong place to fix things. >> >> You should fix your pipes (change the timeouts or whatever). >> >> If worse comes to worst, pkg_add could *possibly* retry running ftp(1), >> but th

Re: OpenBSD insecurity rumors from isopenbsdsecu.re

2020-05-07 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2020-05-07 14:48, Aisha Tammy wrote: >> I wouldn't want to read an OS written in Rust and I would love to see secure >> developments in C even if it hampers potential performance. Things like Go >> are >> not suitable for an OS with many small programs. >> > Curious about why... though admitted

Re: 'post quantum' encryption algorithm(s) in latest libressl and upcoming 6.7 to chose

2020-05-09 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2020-05-09 07:41, Martin wrote: > This one > https://www.tomshardware.com/news/d-wave-5000-qubit-first-sale,40470.html > is the most powerful 5000qbits quantum computer sells nowadays. > > Moreother, D-Wave opened online service to access 5000qbit remotely for > solving 'special' tasks which

Re: 'post quantum' encryption algorithm(s) in latest libressl and upcoming 6.7 to chose

2020-05-09 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2020-05-09 07:41, Martin wrote: > This one > https://www.tomshardware.com/news/d-wave-5000-qubit-first-sale,40470.html > is the most powerful 5000qbits quantum computer sells nowadays. D-waves definition of qubit is different and their machines will never be capable of breaking public key cryp

Re: 'post quantum' encryption algorithm(s) in latest libressl and upcoming 6.7 to chose

2020-05-09 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2020-05-09 14:31, i...@aulix.com wrote: > guessed by quantum provided session symmetric cipher is strong enough? Quantum does not break any in use today and AES-256 symmetric is expected to be quantum resistant in any case. I personally prefer AES-256 ctr over the more complex GCM. I am not a

Re: 'post quantum' encryption algorithm(s) in latest libressl and upcoming 6.7 to chose

2020-05-09 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2020-05-09 14:34, i...@aulix.com wrote: > D-waves has too uncoupled qubits if I understand it correctly, it is nothing > to do about qubits quantity as we used to think about it. Like a "cluster" of > completely isolated hosts (which is already not a cluster or course). I don't care for the d

Re: 'post quantum' encryption algorithm(s) in latest libressl and upcoming 6.7 to chose

2020-05-09 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2020-05-09 16:25, i...@aulix.com wrote: > Note: Since these MS / U.S. government keys are deeply sticking in Intel XEON > processor hardware, it doesn’t play a role, what other OS you install or boot > afterwards: Debian/UBUNTU Linux, OpenBSD, … If your software uses Intel > AES-NI hardware e

Re: OpenBSD insecurity rumors from isopenbsdsecu.re

2020-05-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Here's a game. Name as many operating systems as you can that encrypt the page file or swap space by default?

Re: Mandate control in OpenBSD like SELinux or AppArmor

2020-05-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On May 11, 2020 7:27:49 PM UTC, i...@aulix.com wrote: >Please let me know, what are analogues of SELinux and AppArmor in OBSD > http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html You are supposed to "do your homework" and try googling and searching the mailing list archive before asking questions. Clearly you h

unveil documentation

2020-05-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
The unveil man page is perfectly correct and it is not hard to test it's behaviour. I just wonder if it may aid unveil adoption in languages other than C, if it explicitly mentioned that exec is not required on a dir to allow reading the files within, e.g. if the dev is more used to filesystem pe

Re: Howto change login mechanism on OpenBSD

2020-05-20 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On May 20, 2020 9:31:19 PM UTC, Edgar Pettijohn wrote: >On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 08:48:20PM +0200, Valdrin MUJA wrote: >> Hi Misc, >> >> I have an interactive shell program which has an authentication >section and I want to login via my program. How can I do that? >> >> Actually I want to run thi

Re: Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installation?

2020-05-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2020-05-21 09:55, Anders Andersson wrote: >> I am a huge fan of minimal and custom installations >> as I mostly use OpenBSD to host simple HTTP servers. > ... >> I would like to get your opinion on that. > From what I've seen, those goals are not compatible with OpenBSD, as > in: You're just mak

Re: Dovecot and multi-factor auth support

2020-05-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
>> Is there any sort of supported way of wiring up login_duo with >> OpenSMTPD and Dovecot, or using bsdauth in some way to enforce a >> second auth factor? > >bsdauth isn't really setup for multi factor, the only way I've seen >this >done is splitting the password field into a fixed-length OTP a

Re: Intel wireless issue after upgrading to 6.7

2020-05-28 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2020-05-28 14:40, Michael Steeves wrote: > but I'm wondering if there's some other way to get any more detail out of the > laptop about what's going on? ifconfig has a debug flag. A packet capture from another device with monitor mode, may be a helpful option too. e.g. iwm or athn http://open

Re: Article OpenBSD: Not Free Not Fuctional and Definetly Not Secure and BSD, the truth blog

2020-05-28 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2020-05-28 18:38, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > It indeed is written by someone lacking knowledge about everything. It > is funny, and gave me a good laugh - the comments are even funnier! Be aware that the author deletes your comments and replaces them with his own, under your name, whilst hiding

Re: Could somebody please put unveil() in ftp(1)?

2020-06-01 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2020-06-01 11:20, Stuart Henderson wrote: > We went through this earlier when unveil was added to nc. The way capath > directories are often populated in the real world is not compatible with > unveil, you would need to resolve all files in capath, recursively resolve > symlinks, and add the cha

Re: Could somebody please put unveil() in ftp(1)?

2020-06-01 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2020-06-01 13:30, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> I wonder, if 99% of users just use /etc/ssl/cert.pem? whether a flag that >> breaks/enables other use cases (removes capath support at runtime), might >> work? > I guess you don't understand unveil. You didn't understand what Stuart > just said *at al

Re: Mounting encrypted drive on boot

2020-06-03 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2020-06-02 23:27, Chris Narkiewicz wrote: > Somebody on StackOverflow advised on modifying /etc/rc > and run bioctl before disks are mounted, but I'm not sure > if this is a right approach, especially that attaching > more disks might change the /dev/sd* numberign. That would cause yourself mai

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