Re: sha-512 efficiency

2020-01-04 Thread Greg Troxel
Sad Clouds writes: > On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 09:53:40 -0800 > Jordan Geoghegan wrote: > >> You can test your machines hashing speed using the command: "openssl >> speed sha256 sha512" > > I wrote a small C program where I call OpenSSL SHA512 function in a > loop, on a string buffer of 1 KiB in

Re: Upgraded to 8.1, now /etc/security failing

2020-01-04 Thread Martin Husemann
On Sat, Jan 04, 2020 at 09:02:23AM -0500, russell_mcma...@yahoo.com wrote: > > mtree: unknown group `_rtadvd' > mtree: failed at line 417 of the specification Run something like: postinstall -s /tmp/etc.tgz -s /tmp/xetc.tgz -d / check it will tell you what users you need to create and

Upgraded to 8.1, now /etc/security failing

2020-01-04 Thread russell_mcmanus
I upgraded to 8.1 on top of a 6 install using the standard install tools. I'm getting a message like this in the email sent to root in the daily insecurity output email: mtree: unknown group `_rtadvd' mtree: failed at line 417 of the specification I started reading /etc/security but this is a

Re: sha-512 efficiency

2020-01-04 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 2020-01-04 04:36, Sad Clouds wrote: Not tried ZFS on NetBSD yet, but I was wondering about the efficiency of the various hash functions. ZFS can use fletcher4, sha-256, sha-512, etc. in order to verify its data integrity. Some of them may or may not be implemented on different platforms,

Re: Xorg from Base or pkgsrc - recommendations?

2020-01-04 Thread maya
On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 09:58:29PM +0100, Matthias Petermann wrote: > The pkgsrc version led to segmentation faults on my Thinkpad X220 with Intel > graphics, while the version from NetBSD worked without any problems. I think that xf86-video-intel on pkgsrc needs to be updated to the latest git.

sha-512 efficiency

2020-01-04 Thread Sad Clouds
Not tried ZFS on NetBSD yet, but I was wondering about the efficiency of the various hash functions. ZFS can use fletcher4, sha-256, sha-512, etc. in order to verify its data integrity. Some of them may or may not be implemented on different platforms, but the most secure hash function seems to be