Re: DPT revision....(broken drivers in -STABLE)

2000-08-26 Thread Mike Smith
> I'm curious -- what kinds of cards are supported by this routine? > Does this include the DPT SmartRAID V, as well as the older SmartRAID > IV? I've got an anonymous ftp server I need to rebuild -- it had > previously been running Slackware Linux, but as the kernel got > updated, the

Re: yarrow & /dev/random

2000-08-26 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > You probably don't want to chose RC6 or MARS because their authors > will probably patent them if they lose, and then you'll have to back > off using them fast. If they were going to be patented, the application has already been filed, so you might as well assume that they are patented

Re: yarrow & /dev/random

2000-08-26 Thread Adam Back
Jeroen writes: > > > Twofish in abrest Davies-Meyer mode is going to blow away BF-CBC-256 > > > pseudo 256 bit block cipher Davies-Meyer performance wise, because of > > > the key agility. > > But Twofish is not neccessarily the best choice. Yes, it's being > pushed by Bruce Schneier but that's

Re: yarrow & /dev/random

2000-08-26 Thread Jeroen C. van Gelderen
Mark Murray wrote: [...] > > Crypto construct-wise I don't think you can treat BF-CBC of a 256 bit > > plaintext with a 256 bit key as a virtual 256 bit block cipher > > operation. I suspect the result will be weaker than 256 bits because > > of the internal structure of BF-CBC. > > I'm not sure

Re: official devfs patch for review

2000-08-26 Thread Chris Costello
On Sunday, August 27, 2000, Boris Popov wrote: > No, not all bits are incorporated. At least you've missed two > important things. First: > > # cd /dev/fd > # ls > 0 1 2 > # cd .. > # ls > 0 1 2 > > And second - directory na

Re: official devfs patch for review

2000-08-26 Thread Boris Popov
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > This incorporates the functional bits from the patch Boris posted > here earlier as I've been able to extract them from his patch. No, not all bits are incorporated. At least you've missed two important things. First: # cd /dev/fd

Re: DPT revision....(broken drivers in -STABLE)

2000-08-26 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:18 PM -0400 2000/8/23, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > I don't remember seeing a verbose boot log posted so I can't really say > whats wrong. There is no difference b/t the -CURRENT and 4-STABLE > versions of dpt_pci.c so I'm not sure what could be causing the > problem. Of course it may be

Re: panic: reducing sbsize: lost count, uid = 1001

2000-08-26 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
If this is a problem with sbsize, this should take care of any possibility ever of there being a problem... Index: kern/kern_proc.c === RCS file: /usr2/ncvs/src/sys/kern/kern_proc.c,v retrieving revision 1.69 diff -u -r1.69 kern_proc

Re: PATCH: devfs mkIII test & review please.

2000-08-26 Thread Boris Popov
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > Missing: > Rename > Subdirs. > Close some race conditions using guaranteed atomic operations. > Mountoption (ro ?) to prevent new devices from appearing in an instance. > All uses of cdevsw_add() needs to be u

Re: cvs commit: src/secure/lib/libcrypto Makefile Makefile.inc

2000-08-26 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Nickolay Dudorov wrote: > I usually run 'make -j32 buildworld' on my current > system. After this commit I can not do this. The next patch > permits to use '-j32' again. Since it can't really break things to do so, I added it :) Thanks. > N.Dudorov -- Brian F

Re: yarrow & /dev/random

2000-08-26 Thread Adam Back
Mark writes: > [...] > FreeBSD is using an earlier version of T'so's code; I beiieve he > improved it later, but it has no (or little) backtracking protection, > and can be too easily attacked "from both sides". OK, I agree that that's an area where yarrow offers better protection. But it's not

Re: DPT revision....(broken drivers in -STABLE)

2000-08-26 Thread Peter Wemm
Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 01:51:16PM -0500, Visigoth wrote: > > > Sorry for the cross post but > > > > Would it be possible to revert the DPT commits made by peter on > > Mon Aug 7 18:48:14 2000 in the RELENG_4 branch? It seems that the > > dpt_attatch is failin

Re: DPT revision....(broken drivers in -STABLE)

2000-08-26 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 01:51:16PM -0500, Visigoth wrote: > Sorry for the cross post but > > Would it be possible to revert the DPT commits made by peter on > Mon Aug 7 18:48:14 2000 in the RELENG_4 branch? It seems that the > dpt_attatch is failing in bus_alloc_resource(9) for

Re: yarrow & /dev/random

2000-08-26 Thread Mark Murray
> > OK; what then? The existing MD5 based system is very attackable, and > > protects itself very poorly. > > My argument for linux is leave it as it is, and see if we can persuade > the yarrow authors to change yarrow so it does export a /dev/random > compatible API. If that happened, I'd fol

Re: make buildworld (4->5) failed

2000-08-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Alexey Zelkin wrote: > hi, > > Just experienced on 4.0-RELEASE and 4.1-STABLE (two days ago) following > error when tried to build current world. This was already fixed a few days ago. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles

Re: yarrow & /dev/random

2000-08-26 Thread Adam Back
Mark writes: > > You really can't use yarrow to implement /dev/random as it is. > > [...] > > OK; what then? The existing MD5 based system is very attackable, and > protects itself very poorly. My argument for linux is leave it as it is, and see if we can persuade the yarrow authors to change

official devfs patch for review

2000-08-26 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
There is an official DEVFS patch at http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/devfs.patch This incorporates the functional bits from the patch Boris posted here earlier as I've been able to extract them from his patch. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

break in usr.bin/kdump

2000-08-26 Thread James Johnson
Hello, I've been tracking -CURRENT for a while.. Whenever I attempt to build the world I get the following break: # make buildworld ===> usr.bin/kdump cc -O -pipe -I/usr/src/usr.bin/kdump/../ktrace -I/usr/src/usr.bin/kdump/../. . -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/

Re: IDE RAID (HPT-370/Abit KT7-RAID) install questions..

2000-08-26 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Thomas Stromberg wrote: > On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > > This is not an "IDE RAID" controller. It's an IDE controller with some > > lame "RAID" software in the BIOS. We don't support this. > > Hopefully this thread will save the next poor soul who tries this. > > Just

Re: yarrow & /dev/random

2000-08-26 Thread Mark Murray
> You really can't use yarrow to implement /dev/random as it is. Even > waiting for reseeds doesn't cut it. The issue is that everything goes > through the yarrow output function, which restricts yarrow to offering > computational security with at worst 2^n work factor to break because > it offe

Re: IDE RAID (HPT-370/Abit KT7-RAID) install questions..

2000-08-26 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Thomas Stromberg wrote: >Hopefully this thread will save the next poor soul who tries this. Indeed. >Now the question is, what ATA-100 RAID solutions are there that are fully >supported? I'd guess the Promise board, but the last time I guessed >(err.. last week), I got a su

Re: yarrow & /dev/random

2000-08-26 Thread Adam Back
Mark writes: > > I'm hoping to persuade the yarrow designers of the importance of > > supporting /dev/random semantics for the unix community acceptance. > > John Kelsey and I had some discussions along the lines of feeding > > /dev/random output into yarrow, which I notice someone on here > > co

devfs patch for review

2000-08-26 Thread Boris Popov
Hello, I've made some fixes in the fs layer of new devfs. First version of this patch was passed via Poul and new version includes parts of his suggestions. Here is a brief decription of the patch: Rename de_dir to de_parent with appropritate code changes. Implement prop

Re: IDE RAID (HPT-370/Abit KT7-RAID) install questions..

2000-08-26 Thread Thomas Stromberg
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > This is not an "IDE RAID" controller. It's an IDE controller with some > lame "RAID" software in the BIOS. We don't support this. Hopefully this thread will save the next poor soul who tries this. Just to put the final nail in the coffin.. I went ahea

make buildworld (4->5) failed

2000-08-26 Thread Alexey Zelkin
hi, Just experienced on 4.0-RELEASE and 4.1-STABLE (two days ago) following error when tried to build current world. ===> secure/usr.bin/scp cc -O -pipe -DNO_IDEA -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include -c /usr/src/secure/usr.bin/scp/../../../crypto/openssh/scp.c cc -O -pipe -DNO_IDEA -I/usr/o

Re: perlcc in current - xs_init and boot_DynaLoader

2000-08-26 Thread Mark Murray
> > If i do a perlcc test.pl i get the folllowing , in CURRENT ? > > Must i define something beforehand, or is it broken ? > > I'll take a look... Looks like perl brokenness. The missing boot_DynaLoader is in DynaLoader.a, but there is no way of linking it in. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPA

Re: DPT revision....(broken drivers in -STABLE)

2000-08-26 Thread Karl Pielorz
"Matthew N. Dodd" wrote: > Not having a test system with PCI DPT boards somewhat limits my ability to > wring these things out. I won't refuse a rackmounted compaq with PCI and > EISA slots and a brace of DPT and Smart2 RAID cards if someone sends me > one. Who knows? I might even be able to b

Re: IDE RAID (HPT-370/Abit KT7-RAID) install questions..

2000-08-26 Thread Mike Smith
This is not an "IDE RAID" controller. It's an IDE controller with some lame "RAID" software in the BIOS. We don't support this. > (excuse complete ignorance as far as IDE RAID below) > > For the buildbox here, I decided to go ahead with Soren's ATA-100 RAID > suggestion, and bought an Abit K