On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 03:05:12AM +0100, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
> It means that the RNG was seeded with a (supposedly) bad state, e.g.
> with not enough random bits to be deemed safe.
>
> It is generally not safe to keep long term keys generated during
> that state.
IMO there is something to fi
Le 21/12/2013 16:06, Emmanuel Dreyfus a écrit :
I have that messages on an i386 6.1.2 Xen machine:
cprng cpu0-short: WARNING pseudorandom rekeying.
cprng 47814d1: WARNING pseudorandom rekeying.
cprng sysctl: WARNING pseudorandom rekeying.
What does it means? I just upgraded the kernel to 6.1.2 t
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 09:32:20AM +, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> By the way I'm in the Netherlands and my laptop was bought in the UK and I
> believe channels 1-13 are available in Europe.
Some drivers have sysctl nodes to controll this, e.g. ath has
hw.ath.countrycode and hw.ath.regdomain.
The
On 28 December 2013 00:49, jscottkas...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi. Wifi equipment destined for the US market must have a hardware,
> firmware, or driver software lock on channels 12 and 13 , which are not
> licensed in the US. I have a felling that tje firmware for that device must
> implement a US/no
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 09:39:38AM +, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
>
> I don't think so, I think the limitation is in either the iwn(4) or
> the ath(4) driver. If it was in the firmware why would it work
> straight ouf the box in Windows?
>
The operating system downloads the firmware to iwn as part
On 28 December 2013 00:30, Greg Troxel wrote:
> You don't mention where you are, and if 12 is an authorized channel
> there.
I'm in the Netherlands, channels 1-13 are authorized here.
>
> You can read the soruce code, but I would be surprised if this is
> hardcoded in NetBSD. I would think it
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 02:32:33PM -0600, David Young wrote:
>
> Wow. I thought that n-key rollover was standard behavior since the
> 1980s!
>
Nope, blame everyone for the race to the bottom cut every corner you can
design. To do true n-rollover you need to isolate the keys from each
other, th