Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:38:40 +0200 From: Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org> To: waldeck@hk2.uwaterloo.ca Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/101564: man 4 random has a URL as reference Message-ID: <4530B020.6070602@elvandar.org> In-Reply-To: <20061014092111.7D38D101833@hk2.uwaterloo.ca> References: <20061014092111.7D38D101833@hk2.uwaterloo.ca>
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waldeck@hk2.uwaterloo.ca wrote: > Hi, > >> Synopsis: man 4 random has a URL as reference > >> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed >> State-Changed-By: remko >> State-Changed-When: Fri Oct 13 14:16:30 UTC 2006 >> State-Changed-Why: >> The URL is required to understand the Yarrow protocol, we cannot remove >> that eventhough it requires internet access for this. Closing the PR. >> Facilitated by: Snow B.V. > >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=101564 > > Did you read the last sentence in my PR? > >>> Scheiers paper explains the algoritm but does not consider the meaning to the variables. > > This is still true! > > Dr. Markus Waldeck Yes well, without it it is impossible to understand it at all. I have verified this with the guy who added the support and he also thinks the reference should stay in. Let me quote the relevant part: " Please don't remove that URL. Messing with the Yarrow algorithm would be a critical and very subtle mistake, and I would not like folks to tackle it without being able to at least find that paper. " It would also become very impractical to import the information into a manual page or something since since it would not become any reasonably sized manual then (information from Ruslan (ru@)). Please feel free to poke the maintainer of the website to correct the information listed there (that information itself is out of our control). Ofcourse I am open to better suggestions, but at the moment the URL will remain in the manual page :) Best regards, remko -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder ** remko@elvandar.org FreeBSD ** remko@FreeBSD.org /* Quis custodiet ipsos custodes */
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