Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 01:27:45 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: /dev/io , /dev/mem : only used by Xorg? Message-ID: <20050301092745.GA95093@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNAEJGFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <20050228200706.GA70059@xor.obsecurity.org> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNAEJGFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:02:51AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 04:11:24AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > >> Actually, recompiling openssl to use a prng daemon instead of the > >> random device will probably improve your ssh security - unless they > >> have greatly improved the entropy generation in the random device in > >> 5.X > > > > Yes. It seems that you really need to learn about FreeBSD 5.x and > > how it differs from 4.x. > > > > Do I hear an echo here? Did you miss the part where I said "UNLESS > they have greatly improved..." > > The description of the "all new" randomizer in FreeBSD 5.X is all very > well but I have not got around to run a test suite against it. So > until such time as I do, I am not going to assume that it really is > better. There's a big gap between implementation and architecture. > > As I only care to make my stuff crackable by 500 clustered supercomputers > working for 1 year, instead of 2000 supercomputers working for 100 years, > I really and truly have had better things to do than test the new > randomizer. I presume that you are in the same boat Ken, as you have > not admitted to testing it either. If this is the case, perhaps the > wise thing to do would be to actually test it, rather than just taking > the word of the manpage in 5.x that it is better? Eh? Who's Ken? And yes, I've tested it. So has Mark, and Bruce Schneier, who wrote the algorithm. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCJDWQWry0BWjoQKURAjDFAJ0e3lCrqW+2y4T20VbbmH8r/G8+AgCgjeCc a35i6G6Nh4Pf1fu+Nn7qGv8= =2J4J -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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