Re: patch(1) depends on RCS - should it?

2013-10-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
sr.bin/patch/inp.c lines 166 to 240 for details. Yes, that code should be removed. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explain

Re: Importing tradcpp (traditional (K&R-style) C macro preprocessor) into base?

2013-06-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
(not the version in port right now but what will become version 0.2). However, I think these programs should be fixed, rather than put tradcpp in the src tree. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD sinc

Re: Adding a FOREACH_CONTINUE() variant to queue(3)

2013-05-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
may not have been any previos FOREACH involved. TAILQ_FOREACH_FROM(...) ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be exp

Re: devstat overhead VS precision

2013-04-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <516c71bc.4000...@freebsd.org>, Alexander Motin writes: >On 15.04.2013 23:43, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message <516c515a.9090...@freebsd.org>, Alexander Motin writes: >> >> For tuning anything on a non-ridiculous SSD device or modern >> h

Re: devstat overhead VS precision

2013-04-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
o know. The cost 20 64bit counters in struct devstat (N|R|W|E)*5*8 = 160 bytes, but since devstat is already 288 bytes, that isn't a major catastropy. The ability to measure latency precisly should be retained, but it could be made a sysctl enabled debugging facility. The %busy crap should b

Re: [patch] md(4) and preloaded memory disks

2012-11-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
remember right, this was for the case where you had preloaded multiple images, and the kernel would only auto-discover the first one. All things (such as the disapperance of floppy disks), considered this feature should be removed. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3

Re: please review: patch to retain device name for dumpdev.

2012-11-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
agic string editing is probably not a good idea. Given that /dev is really just a view into GEOMs namespace, one could argue for "GEOM:ada0p3" that that may be going overboard in sematic correctness. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP

Re: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program

2012-09-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , Garrett Cooper writes: >No difference proven at 95.0% confidence This is the important bit of information... >Thanks for the tip :)! You're welcome :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBS

Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
gt;> about this. > >so if 76% would decide that FreeBSD should have KDE included in system - >it means that it should? Just to clarify: when I write "offer by default" I do not mean "cram down peoples throat". -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.2

Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
er population of FreeBSD agreeing on which window manager we should offer as the default, we can talk about this. Until such a consensus exists, this discussion is just a waste of time. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeB

Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
o have to deal with it, when I squeeze FreeBSD into embedded systems which have neither graphics outputs nor keyboard or mouse inputs. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Neve

Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , Zhihao Yuan writes: >On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> My suggest was 100% serious: Assume X11 _is_ the graphical >> environment, pick a toolkit which is written to work with >> any window manager, which all good toolkits are, an

Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , Zhihao Yuan writes: >On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp >wrote: >> In message , Lorenzo Cogotti >> writ >> es: >>>Hi, >>>I was wondering about the possibility of FreeBSD to provide an official >>>supported graph

Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , Lorenzo Cogotti writ es: >Hi, >I was wondering about the possibility of FreeBSD to provide an official >supported graphical environment. We already do: It's called "X11" :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org

Re: [maybe spam] Re: FreeBSD 1.x Binaries Work Except under Chroot

2012-08-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <20120816081336.gb27...@e-new.0x20.net>, Lars Engels writes: >> 386BSD was even better, and I have a machine that boots it in less >> than 15 seconds from power-on... > >Me too, it's running Linux. ;-) You should upgrade the OS then... :-) -- Poul-He

Re: [maybe spam] Re: FreeBSD 1.x Binaries Work Except under Chroot

2012-08-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , Adrian Chadd writes: >Holy. Crap. 17 seconds? > >Can we please go back to having it take this long? please? 386BSD was even better, and I have a machine that boots it in less than 15 seconds from power-on... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@fr

Re: FreeBSD 1.x Binaries Work Except under Chroot

2012-08-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <201208102249.q7amn8gf066...@fire.js.berklix.net>, "Julian H. Stacey " writes: >I dont see 1.1.5: It is not in our VCS because of the USL-BSD lawsuit. You can find the bits here: http://phk.freebsd.dk/FreeBSD/ -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.

Re: CVE-2012-0217 Intel's sysret Kernel Privilege Escalation and FreeBSD 6.2/6.3

2012-07-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ted their screwup in their manual. TL;DR: Which part of "compatible" doesn't Intel get ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adeq

Re: [CFC/CFT] large changes in the loader(8) code

2012-06-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
I would like to point out that all other operating system which has had this precise problem, have solved it by adding a bootfs partition to hold the kernel+modules required to truly understand the disk-layout ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD Boot Times

2012-06-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , Wojci ech Puchar writes: One of the major slowdowns is that we do all the device drivers serially & synchronously. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe N

Re: reverse USB driver - is it possible?

2012-06-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , Wojci ech Puchar writes: >is it the same possible with USB? >i mean if i can make my laptop to simulate say USB CDROM. No, the hardware is not up to it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD com

Re: [Hash function Ipv4]

2012-06-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
uint32_t ipv4, h; h = ipv4 % HASH; ipv4 /= HASH; h ^= ipv4 % HASH; h ^= ipv4 / HASH; Where HASH was a prime number near to 2^11 However, I cannot rule out that the good results I saw was a result if RIPE's allocation policy at the time. -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: PID/UID namespaces

2012-05-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
multiple jails act as shared UID/GID (sub-)spaces for those jails, but there is now way to avoid that, it's a direct consequence of the sharing of the filesystems. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer

A dual-ISP hack with jail/vnet and ipfw

2012-02-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
roadblock $F delete 1 # Remove the evidence # XXX: Even safer: put jail in md(4) disk, rm, remount r/o rm -rf $jdir/* -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attri

Re: mmap implementation for cdev

2011-12-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
and friends are implemented ? That might allow you to. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained

Re: mmap implementation for cdev

2011-12-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ort in pthread for thread specific storage, which should be your first choice. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequ

Re: mmap implementation for cdev

2011-12-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
hread. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ freebsd-ha

Re: 9-beta1 installer - partition editor

2011-09-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In fact, it is only on PC like hardware that you can reliably share a disk between different mutually competitive operating systems. Most "unix-machines" don't have a concept of what you call partitions, and neither did BSD unix until 386BSD introduced it. Until then: One OS, o

Re: A style proposal for referring to upper-level directories in Makefiles

2011-07-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
le who try to compile our bits on alien systems without bmake. I am not sure if that is a concern we should care about. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice

Re: int64_t and printf

2011-06-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ax_t vs. intN_t, so now I just cast anything that that's typedef'ed to intmax_t and move on. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adeq

Re: int64_t and printf

2011-06-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <4debe469.5060...@links.org>, Ben Laurie writes: >On 05/06/2011 19:21, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message <4debc741.1020...@links.org>, Ben Laurie writes: >> I have therefore resorted to printf'ing any typedefed integer type using >> &

Re: int64_t and printf

2011-06-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
printf("%-30s -> %jd -> %s\n", s, (intmax_t)t, buf); If some system introduces int512_t that may not be optimal, but since printf is a pretty slow operation anyway, I doubt it will hurt even half as much as the alternative. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p

Galep5 chip programmer works under FreeBSD

2011-06-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
.dk/Galep5.html There are various hooks into this product which allows it to be controlled by programs, I have not used those (yet?) Recommended, Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since

Re: [patch] extending alloc_unr(9) to allocate specific unit numbers

2010-06-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
patches/md-alloc_unr.diff > >This sounds useful to me. Perhaps ask p...@? My only worry is that if people start to use this indiscriminantly to store random collections of numbers, then it is far from the optimal data structure for it. Other than that: go for it. -- Poul-Henning Ka

Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

2009-03-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ly into userland processes. Now _THAT_ would be interesting. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequat

Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

2009-03-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , Robert Wats on writes: >In which case user application threads will need to >know their CPU [...] Didn't jemalloc solve that problem once already ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBS

Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

2009-03-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
nly thing worse than generalizing from one example is generalizing from no examples at all. We can add those mappings when we know why we would want them. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD

Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

2009-03-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
one >per-process for static data like getpid/getgid. Agreed, that is a good place to start. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be ex

Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

2009-03-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
o in the callout queue, but instead uses the hardware timer to aim an interrupt at the next time it needs to wake up. >>the bios may autonomously change the cpu speed > >True. This could be an issue. Your optimism is cute but misguided. On most laptops the bios WILL change the CPU

Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

2009-03-26 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
significant number of microseconds, plenty of time to make strange things happen. You will want to study carefully Dave Mills work to tame the alpha chips wandering SAW clocks. Poul-Henning [1] In my mind, reworking the callout system in the kernel would be a much better more neded an

Re: write-only variables in src/sys/ - possible bugs

2009-02-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <49874ca8.5090...@gmx.de>, Christoph Mallon writes: >I compiled a list of all local variables in src/sys/ (r188000), which >are only written to, but never read. Bravo! -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC

Re: atacontrol broken in 7.1-PR

2008-09-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
mited this fix. >Hi, Poul-Henning, I think it should be MFCed before release. I agree, but I'm ENOTIME. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what

Re: fs/udf: vm pages "overlap" while reading large dir

2008-02-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
that the blkno is aligned to the start of a sector and use the 512 byte units, so I guess it would be: offset = dbtob(blkno); KASSERT(!(offset & (bsize - 1)), ("suitable diagnostic")); -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/

Re: fs/udf: vm pages "overlap" while reading large dir

2008-02-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ture forward, the right thing to do is to fix UDF to not access subsectors. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can a

Re: Progress for 7.0 - the "what's cooking" page

2007-09-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
suspend/resume does not work on SMP systems, including multi-core laptops. :-/ -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be expla

Tester needed, picture heavy webserver preferred.

2006-06-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
to be somebody who is into serious bandwidth AND clue. Should any of you know of a good candidate, please tell them to email me. Thanks in advance! Poul-Henning PS: Full discretion! The software will be delivered in plain brown IP packets with no source address :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Any D-Link employees here ?

2006-03-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Apologies for this interruption: If we have any D-Link employees in the audience, please contact me by private email, thanks! -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute

Re: [CALL FOR TESTERS] New system call: abort2()

2005-12-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
And yes, changing style(9) is just not worth the time it takes. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___

Re: GEOM for multipath? How?

2005-11-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
c did too. The only trick is to make sure >that the IRQs of the cards are not shared between the cards or with >any other device. I suspect it is not the card as much as the driver, but I am not sure. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: dev_lock() question

2005-09-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Baldwin writes: >On Thursday 29 September 2005 02:14 pm, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Baldwin writes: >> >Actually, you would think that it could be initialized either via an early >&g

Re: dev_lock() question

2005-09-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ow early his dev_lock needed? Far too early due to console madness (in syscons I belive). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be expl

Re: devfs file name NLS encoding?

2005-09-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ething convinient for the source encoding? All filenames in DEVFS are either created from the device driver 'C' source (as a string literal via sprintf mostly) or from userland as symlink. So whatever works. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel Source Divergence, Security (was: booting gbde-encrypted filesystem)

2005-07-31 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
s to try :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ freeb

Re: Kernel Source Divergence, Security (was: booting gbde-encrypted filesystem)

2005-07-31 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
, but I'd like to review the patch before it gets committed because there are a large number of dragons. In P4:phk_gbde there is the beginning of hw-crypto support through opencrypto(9), if somebody wants to work on that, get in touch with me. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus

Re: booting gbde-encrypted filesystem

2005-07-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
most people just worry about their data if the machine gets stolen. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Ancient FreeBSD releases online

2005-07-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
rs welcome. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___ freebsd-hackers@f

wishlist for sysutils/xbatt: two batteries

2005-06-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Resume timer: unknown Resume on ring indicator: disabled Isn't there some kind soul who can make sysutils/xbatt (or some other X11 tool) show the status for the two batteries individually ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP

Re: 4BSD Scheduler Problem on 5.3

2005-04-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
/sessions/exit which I have never really felt comfortable about. My hope is that I have solved it by refcounting the tty structure. So if this is before my changes: "Yeah, known (but rare) issue)" If after my changes: "D**N!" -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog

Re: the current status of nullfs, unionfs

2005-03-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
quest. :-) yEHA! Thankyouthankyouthankyou! -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
e head technology and Partial Response Maximum Likelyhood decoding you can write and write and write and you will have no idea if it works or not. Bad sector forwarding is another issue in this area. There are commercial companies who have specialized in recovering deleted data from trackfringes

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
here, instead >of just using part of the key material itself to determine the offsets? Because if I used part of the key material you would have to change the location of the lock sectors when you changed the key material. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
trying to obscure these patterns, as well as the physical layout patterns of the storage managment (filesystem/ database) beyond the basic rotation, would just slow things down and not add any incremental security worth it. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [E

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
and up to the claim of being "spook >strength". GBDE only makes that claim for a "cold disk" for pretty much the very reasons you mention. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer |

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
did subsequent to that time is not really relevant. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explaine

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
und keying schemes for GBDE based on these technologies. Poul-Henning PS: Will you be at BSDcan ? It would be a good chance to corner a whiteboard and some beer. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
uld assume your >construction is any better. What do you know that the NIST/NSA review >of AES did not know? That neither the authors of Rinjdael, its reviewers, nor NIST are willing to offer a 25 year warranty on it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
infected with, but that doesn't mean I am not interested in a discussion on the subject: just put me on the Cc:. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ing the basic material. See my paper please. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
sed. Gee Perry, now you're spreading FUD. You know perfectly well that it would take less than one hour to substitute another algorithm in the GBDE source code. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
enough honour to give me a Cc: so I could have a chance to participate in the discussion. As I said in my reply just a second ago, I would very much appreciate if Roland would take the time to give me a competent review of GBDE, but he cannot do that as long as he is blinded by the desire to ace

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ce, Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ___

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thor Lancelot Simon writes: >On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 10:15:55PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >> And if CGD is _so_ officially approved as you say, then I can not >> for the life of me understand how it can use the same key to gen

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Todd Vierling writes: >On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> And if CGD is _so_ officially approved as you say, then I can not >> for the life of me understand how it can use the same key to generate >> the IV and perfor

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
rs who live the code. :-) Start out doing it in userland, it's much easier to work with. In FreeBSD we have something called "geom-gate" which allows you to implement disks in userland. I'm sure something similar exists or can be trivially created in your favourite OS. -- Po

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Perry E. Metzger" writes: > >"Poul-Henning Kamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Todd Vierling writes: >>>On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>> >>

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Perry E. Metzger" writes: > >"Poul-Henning Kamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Don't let peole like Thor scare you away, progress happens when people >> try to follow their ideas, even if told that they are f

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
the one my users inhabit. That doesn't count to me. > Instead, he admitted his mistakes and wrote a version 2. Any qualified, factually correct critique of GBDE will be taken very serious by me. I am very much looking forward to it. What Roland has provided is not it. > Are y

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Todd Vierling writes: >On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> At the time where I wrote GBDE, the best that was offered was CGD (and >> similar) and users (not cryptographers!) didn't trust it > >Could you back up this

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thor Lancelot Simon writes: >On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:25:18PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >To quote David Hume, "Never an ought from an is." I'm Danish by birth so english is only my second language, so I apologize for mangling i

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
r hood, then I am sure that it would be received with praise and thanks of no end. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to ma

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
t of bounces from various lists I'm not on. I put my faith in somebody forwarding my replies faithfully onto those lists ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribu

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
not bothered to actually analyse GBDE at all but I heard there were a neck-tie party going on so I thought'd I'd lend them a hand since it is nobody I know". -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 F

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
enty years from now. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
r ideas, even if told that they are fools by people who (think they) know better. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
implify so much that people do not trust the result. As Einstein said: "As simple as possible, but no simpler". Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
m you which amounts to more than name-calling and hand-waving. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately b

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
mselves, we do not need more ideas, nor more people trying >out ideas; we need less. > >Standard, widely analyzed cryptographic algorithms are good. s/ are good/, when applied with caution and wisdom, are good/ :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
g the same key, even if it is 256 bits, is a safe design. You seem to belive otherwise. And that's where it ends. Have a good life. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Neve

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
d that you try :-) We need more ideas and more people trying out ideas. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequat

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
n metadata to protect yourself against this. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequatel

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ectors individually, ignoring the rest of the >system. Yes, but is would be Nsect easier with CGD as the entire thing unravels at the first sector I break. With GBDE I have to attack them one by one. And since it is almost a given that any attack on AES will be statistical in nature, GBDE is m

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
much useful lifetime out of it. It wouldn't be too much work to do it however. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explain

FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
n GBDE, it is obvious that it would benefit boths parties to make the CGD key handling an option for GBDE. So how about it guys: Instead of spreading FUD, lets work together and make the world an even better place ? Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [

GPIB: (very) basic ibfoo() library support

2005-02-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
1); strvisx(vbuf, buf, ibcnt, VIS_WHITE | VIS_CSTYLE); printf("%s\n", vbuf); return (0); } Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer

Re: GENERIC build broken

2005-01-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
rd manufacturers start using it. >> >>Saul, >> >>Please try to do as Mike says, it would save a lot of time and windmills >>if you would check the facts rather than keep arguing your unfounded >>dogma. >> >>-- >>Poul-Henning Kamp Free

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
their evenings. 12. Research/Coding grants (3/6/12 months) from the FreeBSD Foundation and other deep(er) pockets to help some of the heavy lifting happen. We're not only in it for the money, but money surely helps. And I'd like to stress that none of the above requires you to

Re: sysctl hacks

2004-08-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
(data here) > void *moredata; > size_t morelen; >}; > >What is the proper way of sysctl'ing IN the data from moredata? > >I need to make a copy of the sysctl req, but... I'm not sure what >to initialize the 'lock' member to. Just use the SYSCTL_IN(

[TEST] rewritten floppy driver

2004-08-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
GEOM friendly: [...] -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompet

Re: [patch] Raw sockets in jails

2004-04-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
e. I.E. > > traceroute -s > >Otherwise it might fail. How does traceroute and ping normally determine which source address to use ? Can't we use that mechanism to default them to the right thing ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [patch] Raw sockets in jails

2004-04-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
w hard it would be to enforce source-IP compliance with the jail restriction ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by inco

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