Re: libbsd package

2008-07-18 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi Florian, On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 17:28:30 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Thorsten Glaser: > > Any progress on the libbsd package, now that licence issues are out > > of the way? IIRC, plans were to get it ready for all arches in lenny? > > We need a thread-safe version of something like arc4ra

Re: libbsd package

2008-07-18 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 13:08:53 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Dixi: > > >Any progress on the libbsd package, now that licence issues are out > >of the way? IIRC, plans were to get it ready for all arches in lenny? It took a bit more time than expected, but it's already there, as you've alre

Re: libbsd package

2008-07-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* Thorsten Glaser: > Florian Weimer dixit: > >>I'd also see a change that limits the number of bytes which is read from >>/dev/urandom (32 or fewer should be enough). I'm concerned about >>looping shell scripts darinign entropy from the pool at an unacceptably >>high rate. > > For things like tha

Re: libbsd package

2008-07-18 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Florian Weimer dixit: >I'd also see a change that limits the number of bytes which is read from >/dev/urandom (32 or fewer should be enough). I'm concerned about >looping shell scripts darinign entropy from the pool at an unacceptably >high rate. For things like that, the OpenBSD and MirBSD kern

Re: libbsd package

2008-07-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* Thorsten Glaser: > Any progress on the libbsd package, now that licence issues are out > of the way? IIRC, plans were to get it ready for all arches in lenny? We need a thread-safe version of something like arc4random as an element for various security patches (which will target etch). Shall w