Re: Intel hardware bug

2018-01-05 Thread Jules Gilbert via freebsd-security
Ah, sorry I'm wrong.  I apologize.  I won't intrude further.  I spoke up because selectively choosing to read sections of kernel memory is one thing, obtaining useful information from an arbitrary block of kernel memory you don't get to choose is quite another. But their are several people here

Re: Intel hardware bug

2018-01-05 Thread Jules Gilbert via freebsd-security
Sorry guys, you just convinced me that no one, not the NSA, not the FSB, no one!, has in the past, or will in the future be able to exploit this to actually do something not nice. I'm not saying that the hardware shouldn't be fixed, I am saying that we don't need to worry about this. In the earl

Re: Crypto overhaul

2017-11-01 Thread Jules Gilbert via freebsd-security
I've been trying to encourage this group to take a look at whether it's a good idea to continue to depend on factoring as the basis for secret message passing. I read the notes of the work discussed here for relaxation.  I'm not a contributor.  Or rather, my warning was my small contribution

Re: Crypto overhaul

2017-10-27 Thread Jules Gilbert via freebsd-security
These days no one talks about how wonderful CPM was, we used it because at one time, it was the only OS available. So what is our excuse for using SSL?, because I'm fairly certain the NSA and just about everyone else in the neighborhood has hacked it. Question for the group...  Does anyone be

Fw: a factoring program I've decided to give away

2016-11-07 Thread Jules Gilbert via freebsd-security
- Forwarded Message - From: Jules Gilbert To: Paul Sent: Monday, November 7, 2016 9:43 AM Subject: a factoring program I've decided to give away Hello Paul. I should mention, consistent with my purpose in writing (to effect simultaneous distribution of a program I wrote,)

Re: Fw: isn't this the worst possible report?? -- i went back and put a copy on a memstick; see attachment

2016-10-06 Thread Jules Gilbert via freebsd-security
rg" Sent: Thursday, October 6, 2016 1:18 PM Subject: Re: Fw: isn't this the worst possible report?? -- i went back and put a copy on a memstick; see attachment Ian Smith writes: > On Thu, 6 Oct 2016 02:12:25 +, Jules Gilbert via freebsd-security wrote: > >  > But

Fw: Fw: isn't this the worst possible report?? -- i went back and put a copy on a memstick; see attachment

2016-10-06 Thread Jules Gilbert via freebsd-security
ay, October 6, 2016 5:44 AM Subject: Re: Fw: isn't this the worst possible report?? -- i went back and put a copy on a memstick; see attachment On Thu, 6 Oct 2016 02:12:25 +, Jules Gilbert via freebsd-security wrote: > But please help me.  These attacks are limiting my work effo

Fw: isn't this the worst possible report?? -- i went back and put a copy on a memstick; see attachment

2016-10-05 Thread Jules Gilbert via freebsd-security
e laughing... Except we (we geeks,) already do something very similar to this.    I'm not kidding. From: Julian Elischer To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2016 7:14 PM Subject: Re: isn't this the worst possible report?? On 5/10/2016 7:21 AM, Ju

isn't this the worst possible report??

2016-10-05 Thread Jules Gilbert via freebsd-security
Well maybe worse, that the deal with AT&T for the BSD franchise has fallen apart... Okay, so I have a FreeBSD 10.1 CD-ROM,  believed to be a true copy and authentic copy. And I loaded it on a computer.  I did this entirely offline.  I also supplied passwords. Then I went online to get packages.