Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-27 Thread Mark Murray
| 3) It is not built by default (except as a kernel module), so you |either need to add the "options RANDOMDEV" like to your kernel |config, or load it at boot time in /dev/loader.conf Can we make this a standard thing? I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't want /dev/random in

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-26 Thread Mark Murray
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Warner Losh wrote: Some days is OK, imho. Much more than that and I'd begin to worry. Much more than a week or two and I'd worry a lot. I'll go put a note in updating right now. That's okay with me too. People should just not upgrade their work machines for the

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Mark Murray wrote: That's okay with me too. People should just not upgrade their work machines for the next few days until entropy is fixed. Upgrading is fine; just don't build certificates/credentials. Or use ssh Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-26 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Mark Murray wrote: Without knowing what you typed (and where), I can't help. Well, I thought that was obvious :) Not really; folks do the darndest things. :-) Just added options RANDOMDEV as pr your instructions and made

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-26 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 12:55:47PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: I must say I'm not all that comfortable with this series of commits - I was expecting this to stay in Mark's tree until it at least tries to do everything the old driver did. Weakening system security like this for an

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-26 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 10:17:27PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: 2) With the SMP "Destabilization" of the tree coming, I took the opportunity because a) Merging differences was going to get harder; and b) folk were already warned off the use off CURRENT for production purposes.

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-26 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 12:35:12PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: 3) It is not built by default (except as a kernel module), so you either need to add the "options RANDOMDEV" like to your kernel config, or load it at boot time in /dev/loader.conf Can't things be made to autoload random.ko as

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-26 Thread Jacques A . Vidrine
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 12:55:47PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: I don't know which applications depend on /dev/random providing entropy and which gather their own. SSH and SSL should not be used: PGP should be okay. FWIW, a quick look indicates: MIT Kerberos V gathers its own

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-26 Thread Mark Murray
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 12:35:12PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: 3) It is not built by default (except as a kernel module), so you either need to add the "options RANDOMDEV" like to your kernel config, or load it at boot time in /dev/loader.conf Can't things be made to autoload

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-26 Thread Leif Neland
] To: "Kris Kennaway" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Mark Murray" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 3:25 PM Subject: Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device! On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 12:55:47PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-26 Thread Jacques A . Vidrine
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 04:09:26PM +0200, Leif Neland wrote: How much does this "unrandomness" matter? That's why I said `depending on the application'. It probably doesn't matter too much for a Kerberos session key that will be used for the duration of an ftp session. It definately matters

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-26 Thread Jeroen C. van Gelderen
Mark Murray wrote: On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Warner Losh wrote: Some days is OK, imho. Much more than that and I'd begin to worry. Much more than a week or two and I'd worry a lot. I'll go put a note in updating right now. That's okay with me too. People should just not upgrade

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-25 Thread Jacques A . Vidrine
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 12:35:12PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: 1) It is not yet cryptographically secure, so those of you using CURRENT for "live" projects, please be careful! I guess it follows that it is not a good idea to generate keys or certificates on -CURRENT for a while (until entropy

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-25 Thread Mark Murray
I guess it follows that it is not a good idea to generate keys or certificates on -CURRENT for a while (until entropy comes back to town)? Correct if they rely on /dev/random for entropy. I don't know which applications depend on /dev/random providing entropy and which gather their own.

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-25 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Mark Murray wrote: Hola Mondo! The New /dev/random device is in but there are come caveats. 1) It is not yet cryptographically secure, so those of you using CURRENT for "live" projects, please be careful! 2) If you do not have the randomdev module loaded, ssh will fail

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-25 Thread Mark Murray
Hi Without knowing what you typed (and where), I can't help. M Uhm, what about this: cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -g -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../..

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-25 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Mark Murray wrote: Hi Without knowing what you typed (and where), I can't help. Well, I thought that was obvious :) Just added options RANDOMDEV as pr your instructions and made a new kernel with config -r and make depend then make cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-25 Thread Mark Murray
Without knowing what you typed (and where), I can't help. Well, I thought that was obvious :) Not really; folks do the darndest things. :-) Just added options RANDOMDEV as pr your instructions and made a new kernel with config -r and make depend then make Do you have a full crypto

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-25 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Mark Murray wrote: Without knowing what you typed (and where), I can't help. Well, I thought that was obvious :) Not really; folks do the darndest things. :-) Just added options RANDOMDEV as pr your instructions and made a new kernel with config -r and make depend then

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-25 Thread Mark Murray
Do you have a full crypto distribution (kernel also)? Nope, just figured that out myself :) Aren't we supposed to be able to build without crypto ?? I'm not sure about that rule anymore; AFAIK, it is not possible. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-25 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Mark Murray wrote: Do you have a full crypto distribution (kernel also)? Nope, just figured that out myself :) Aren't we supposed to be able to build without crypto ?? I'm not sure about that rule anymore; AFAIK, it is not possible. Hmm, we also have another rule, and that

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-25 Thread Mark Murray
I'm not sure about that rule anymore; AFAIK, it is not possible. Hmm, we also have another rule, and that is to test before commit, the following patch is needed to make a current kernel with your resent commits compile :) Fooey. :-( This is what you get from too-heavy testing in

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-25 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Mark Murray wrote: I'm not sure about that rule anymore; AFAIK, it is not possible. Hmm, we also have another rule, and that is to test before commit, the following patch is needed to make a current kernel with your resent commits compile :) Fooey. :-( This is what you

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-25 Thread Mark Murray
He he :) remember the patch to i386/i386/mem.c as that is also broken, the default statement is best used _inside_ a switch :) Yeah - I got that :-). That makes my kernel compile, but ssh doesn't work anymore, What are the symptoms? which might be due to world being broken due to your

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-25 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Mark Murray wrote: He he :) remember the patch to i386/i386/mem.c as that is also broken, the default statement is best used _inside_ a switch :) Yeah - I got that :-). And the one to yarrow.c ?? That makes my kernel compile, but ssh doesn't work anymore, What are the

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Mark Murray wrote: I don't know which applications depend on /dev/random providing entropy and which gather their own. Right. SSH and SSL should not be used: PGP should be okay. I must say I'm not all that comfortable with this series of commits - I was expecting

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote: It complains about libcrypto libssl not containing RSA, but it might be because make world is broken due to perl... This happens when a test RSA operation fails - but OpenSSH doesn't try to check why it fails and assumes it was because no RSA code

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-25 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kris Kennaway writes: : I must say I'm not all that comfortable with this series of commits - I : was expecting this to stay in Mark's tree until it at least tries to do : everything the old driver did. Weakening system security like this for an : indeterminate

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-25 Thread Mark Murray
And the one to yarrow.c ?? Done! What are the symptoms? It complains about libcrypto libssl not containing RSA, but it might be because make world is broken due to perl... That means the /dev/random driver is not loaded. /../../contrib/perl5/configpm line 20. Use of uninitialized

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-25 Thread Mark Murray
I must say I'm not all that comfortable with this series of commits - I was expecting this to stay in Mark's tree until it at least tries to do everything the old driver did. Weakening system security like this for an indeterminate period really bothers me. 1) I whined for reviews for long

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-25 Thread Mark Murray
It complains about libcrypto libssl not containing RSA, but it might be because make world is broken due to perl... This happens when a test RSA operation fails - but OpenSSH doesn't try to check why it fails and assumes it was because no RSA code even exists. It's probably more likely

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-25 Thread Mark Murray
Yes. Me too. Mark, how long is this period going to be? Some days. Certainly a lot shorter that the SMP destabilization. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Mark Murray wrote: I must say I'm not all that comfortable with this series of commits - I was expecting this to stay in Mark's tree until it at least tries to do everything the old driver did. Weakening system security like this for an indeterminate period really

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-25 Thread Mark Murray
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Murray writes: : Yes. Me too. Mark, how long is this period going to be? : : Some days. Certainly a lot shorter that the SMP destabilization. Some days is OK, imho. Much more than that and I'd begin to worry. Much more than a week or two and I'd

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Warner Losh wrote: Some days is OK, imho. Much more than that and I'd begin to worry. Much more than a week or two and I'd worry a lot. I'll go put a note in updating right now. That's okay with me too. People should just not upgrade their work machines for the next

Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!

2000-06-25 Thread Donn Miller
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Warner Losh wrote: Some days is OK, imho. Much more than that and I'd begin to worry. Much more than a week or two and I'd worry a lot. I'll go put a note in updating right now. That's okay with me too. People should just not upgrade their