[Tails-dev] Support EntropyKey?

2012-11-26 Thread intrigeri
Hi, we're asked to install ekeyd to support EntropyKey: https://tails.boum.org/todo/Install_ekeyd_for___40__potentially__41___better_entropy/ The total installed size of the needed packages is a few hundred kilobytes. I think it's worth adding to improve cryptography -related hardware support.

[Tails-dev] Build systems and microcode weirdness

2012-11-26 Thread intrigeri
Hi, 0.14 and 0.15 I've built have amd64-microcode, intel-microcode and microcode.ctl installed at the P: Begin installing tasks... stage. 0.15~rc1 does not ship these packages. Perhaps there's something missing or different or older or whatever in the Vagrant build setup, compared to what I'm

Re: [Tails-dev] Promoting Persistence features

2012-11-26 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Marco Calamari wrote (26 Nov 2012 13:03:41 GMT) : I bother again this list after considering the value of such a post. Sorry if my evaluation was bad ... This is totally welcome. Looked to me that in 0.14 the persistence mode worth more advocacy, so I dug a little more the new version

Re: [Tails-dev] Promoting Persistence features

2012-11-26 Thread Marco Calamari
On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 15:20 +0200, Maxim Kammerer wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Marco Calamari mar...@marcoc.it wrote: 2) adding a change persistence password in Utility menu would be a probably cheap but really useful feature. It would be a misleading feature, since due to

Re: [Tails-dev] Promoting Persistence features

2012-11-26 Thread Marco Calamari
On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 14:41 +0100, intrigeri wrote: 2) adding a change persistence password in Utility menu would be a probably cheap but really useful feature. Doesn't the GNOME Disk Utility allow to change the LUKS volume passphrase already? Perhaps what's needed is some

Re: [Tails-dev] Support EntropyKey?

2012-11-26 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
intrigeri: Hi, we're asked to install ekeyd to support EntropyKey: https://tails.boum.org/todo/Install_ekeyd_for___40__potentially__41___better_entropy/ The total installed size of the needed packages is a few hundred kilobytes. I think it's worth adding to improve cryptography -related

Re: [Tails-dev] Support EntropyKey?

2012-11-26 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Jacob Appelbaum ja...@appelbaum.net wrote: On a recently installed laptop, I found that it had essentially zero sources of entropy beyond the keyboard, the clock and the hostname. You forgot the CPU. Haveged makes all other approaches to gathering entropy pretty

Re: [Tails-dev] Support EntropyKey?

2012-11-26 Thread anonym
26/11/12 16:40, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: intrigeri: Hi, we're asked to install ekeyd to support EntropyKey: https://tails.boum.org/todo/Install_ekeyd_for___40__potentially__41___better_entropy/ The total installed size of the needed packages is a few hundred kilobytes. I think it's worth

Re: [Tails-dev] Support EntropyKey?

2012-11-26 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
anonym: 26/11/12 16:40, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: intrigeri: Hi, we're asked to install ekeyd to support EntropyKey: https://tails.boum.org/todo/Install_ekeyd_for___40__potentially__41___better_entropy/ The total installed size of the needed packages is a few hundred kilobytes. I think it's

Re: [Tails-dev] bridge mode vs. clock way off

2012-11-26 Thread anonym
22/11/12 14:11, intrigeri wrote: Hi, anonym wrote (21 Nov 2012 14:21:43 GMT) : Log severity info is really verbose. I ran a test for 20 minutes with some rather heavy Tor usage, and the log grew something like 100KB/minute. That's too much, IMHO. Agreed. However, we can save this

Re: [Tails-dev] bridge mode vs. clock way off

2012-11-26 Thread Robert Ransom
On 11/26/12, anonym ano...@lavabit.com wrote: Note: You can't change anything about Log lines in torrc via the control port. Otherwise that'd be the easy way out. SETCONF Log=info file /var/log/tor/info Log=notice file /var/log/tor/log Robert Ransom