RE: Could Open Source Software Help Prevent Sabotage? (fwd)

of a "pristine" source archive, zero or more patches to the the source and a "spec" file which describes the package and build procedure. Having the modification seperate from the original source, and thus the ability to verify the integrity of the original source helps quite a bit. Re

Re: Proposal (was Summary re: /dev/random)

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Re: linux-ipsec: Re: semantics of /dev/{u}random

to the KRNG are all user configurable. There is an alpha version at: http://toad.ilogic.com.au/~dmiller/files/audio-entropyd-0.0.0.tar.gz Regards, Damien Miller -- | "Bombay is 250ms from New York in the new world order" - Alan Cox | Damien Miller - http://www.ilogic.com.au/~dmiller | Ema

Re: IBM to built crypto-on-a-chip into all its PCs

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Re: IBM to built crypto-on-a-chip into all its PCs

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Predictable IVs

/dev/random as the IV, but this may be overkill. Would the system be weakened if I was to use just the block number? Regards, Damien Miller -- | "Bombay is 250ms from New York in the new world order" - Alan Cox | Damien Miller - http://www.mindrot.org/ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) -

Re: FBI involves itself in Verio merger

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Re: FBI announcement on email search 'Carnivore'

). I find it difficult to believe that NAPs aren't using a switched architecture, which should make this sort of thing much more difficult (barring ARP tricks). -d -- | "Bombay is 250ms from New York in the new world order" - Alan Cox | Damien Miller - http://www.mindrot.org/ | Ema

Re: Comcast@Home bans VPNs

ppp over stunnel[1], a SSL wrapper tool. -d [1] http://www.stunnel.org/ -- | "Bombay is 250ms from New York in the new world order" - Alan Cox | Damien Miller - http://www.mindrot.org/ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) -or- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work)

Re: human failings question

numbers. Do they use hardware of software? There would be some interesting attack possibilities if they were to use LCGs with small states, but surely they'd be smarter than that ;) -d -- | ``The power of accurate observation is | Damien Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] | commonly called cynicism by