Re: OpenBSD crypto and NSA/Bruce Schneier

2013-09-11 Thread David Eisner
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Geoff Steckel wrote: > Disk drives are (presumably) trivial to take over. They have firmware > and mechanisms to > use alternate physical blocks for a given logical block. > You're absolutely correct, and this is not theoretical: (page navigation is in the links

Re: OpenBSD crypto and NSA/Bruce Schneier

2013-09-11 Thread David Eisner
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:00 AM, John Long wrote: > > You think they need to target protocols? There are much easier ways of > doing > things. Strong crypto works if you do all the management stuff. Most people > have no idea what's involved with that. Like Espie says there's plenty low > hangin

Re: dmesg garbage and RTC BIOS diagnostic error on Dell Optiplex 790.

2012-02-13 Thread David Eisner
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> RTC BIOS diagnostic error >> 3f > > Increasingly common. Ignore this. > >> 2. There is garbage in the dmesg output, e.g.: ... > These errors are in your earlier boots. Your machine is corrupting > (during a reboot) or not your memory i

dmesg garbage and RTC BIOS diagnostic error on Dell Optiplex 790.

2012-02-13 Thread David Eisner
I just installed OpenBSD 5.0-stable i386 on a brand new Dell Optiplex 790. I'm running the GENERIC.MP kernel, which I built after updating to the latest -stable as of this morning. However, I saw the garbage even before rebuilding from source (i.e. with the kernel in install50.iso). I have two p

Re: Dell Optiplex 790 NIC support (Intel, Broadcom)"

2012-01-30 Thread David Eisner
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Michael T. Davis wrote: >According to Dell's documentation (at http://support.dell.com), the > OptiPlex 790 LOM is an Intel 82579LM, specifically cited by em(4). I believe > you've already identified the Broadcom model (i.e. BCM5722); it appears this > is

Dell Optiplex 790 NIC support (Intel, Broadcom)

2012-01-30 Thread David Eisner
I'm putting together a system to serve as a dedicated OpenBSD firewall. I want to know whether the network interfaces are supported by OpenBSD. The system I'm looking at is a Dell Optiplex 790. Here is what Dell's website has to say about the NICs in question: * On board: (LOM) Intel. Gigabit