Re: [fossil-users] Fossil in a chroot jail. Was: Chiselapp status

2018-07-14 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 13, 2018, at 8:58 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > On Jul 13, 2018, at 7:09 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: >> >> So, if you want to use the rate limiting feature on >> Linux, you will need /proc mounted in your chroot jail. I wish there >> were a better way… > > That’s actually one of the older

Re: [fossil-users] OT: security/entropy (was Re: New Fossil user experiences)

2018-07-14 Thread Warren Young
On Jul 14, 2018, at 2:18 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 03:27:14PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >> >> For example, 100 a’s requires a 7-bit run-length plus zero bits for our >> only code point > > You need more than zero bits to encode the original a though. There’s

Re: [fossil-users] OT: security/entropy (was Re: New Fossil user experiences)

2018-07-14 Thread Richard Hipp
On 7/14/18, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > If you can take the output > of any modern CPRNG as hex and don't get 4bpc, the entropy estimator is > broken. I've always understood the output of entropy estimators to me "the entropy is no greater than this", which is somewhat easier to define, since

Re: [fossil-users] OT: security/entropy (was Re: New Fossil user experiences)

2018-07-14 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 02:49:52PM -0700, Jungle Boogie wrote: > On Fri 13 Jul 2018 4:22 PM, David Mason wrote: > > So I guess this is what Warren had in mind. Posting this in case it helps > > somebody on the list. > > > > Taking this offtopic a little bit more...let's talk about VPNs. > >

Re: [fossil-users] OT: security/entropy (was Re: New Fossil user experiences)

2018-07-14 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 03:27:14PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On Jul 13, 2018, at 3:13 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > > > Now paste in an equivalent number of ‘a’ characters, and you get 0 bits of > > entropy. Strictly speaking, you get 1 bit of entropy for the whole > > message, but it shows

Re: [fossil-users] Feature slideshow on fossil homepage

2018-07-14 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Jungle Boogie on Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:54:04 -0700: > > http://fossil.bradfords.org/fossilthings.gif > > > > Does this look more enticing? > > That doesn't appear to establish a connection. Is your server down? The server was up, so is the firewall. :-) Try this instead: