http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2008/05/15/code-crackers-wanted/
Though it now looks like they are well on their way to solving it, Fermilab
requested help decoding a coded letter they received.
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The Cryptography
Ahh the irony, apparently Debian has implement just such a feature,
but as patch to ssh within their distro:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg214853.html
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:19:05AM -0700, Abe Singer wrote:
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 07:52:58PM -0400, Steven M.
* Peter Gutmann:
Debian seem to be particularly bad for not reporting changes to
maintainers,
This shouldn't be the case. There's a clear policy that non-packaging
changes (basically, anything beyond trivial build fixes and pathname
changes for FHS compliance) should be submitted upstream.
Florian Weimer wrote:
* Ben Laurie:
I must confess that I said that because I did not have the energy to
figure out the other routes to adding entropy, such as adding an int
(e.g. a PID, which I'm told still makes it in there).
The PID dependency is there because of the need for fork
* Ben Laurie:
Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
Ben: I'm idly curious. Was this exceptionally unusual case where use of
uninitialized memory was valid properly commented in the code?
It's mentioned in the manpage for a function that eventually calls the
function that was (correctly) patched--through
* Ben Laurie:
I must confess that I said that because I did not have the energy to
figure out the other routes to adding entropy, such as adding an int
(e.g. a PID, which I'm told still makes it in there).
The PID dependency is there because of the need for fork
support--obviously, the PRNG
