Re: sched_4BSD

2005-03-07 Thread Kamal R. Prasad
--- Steve Watt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], N)? Problem? Scheduler activations may be used to build M:N systems, but that is not a requirement -- you can easily build a 1:1 (all threads are system contention scope) system with activations. But the POSIX std allows

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-07 Thread David Schultz
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005, Perry E. Metzger wrote: No, I am not. PHK invented new cryptographic modes for his work. The fact that he does not understand this is part of the problem. Hi Perry, You've brought up this claim at several points in this thread. Would you be willing to be more specific? I

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-07 Thread Perry E. Metzger
David Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Mar 03, 2005, Perry E. Metzger wrote: No, I am not. PHK invented new cryptographic modes for his work. The fact that he does not understand this is part of the problem. Hi Perry, You've brought up this claim at several points in this thread.

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-07 Thread Colin Percival
David Schultz wrote: As a rather extreme example, suppose that it was discovered that on random input, an MD5 output only has 70 bits of entropy. Then it might be relatively easy for an adversary to recover sector keys without knowing the master key. (Granted, this would

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-07 Thread soralx
I also believe that it would be beneficial to implement regular rewriting of randomly picked lock sector(s) at random times during a user specified interval (up to x rewrites within n seconds) in order to further obscure the write pattern and provide additional protection for lock sectors.

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I also believe that it would be beneficial to implement regular rewriting of randomly picked lock sector(s) at random times during a user specified interval (up to x rewrites within n seconds) in order to further obscure the write

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-07 Thread soralx
I agree. I would also add random reads (or specially designed, combined random reads and writes) to make traffic analysis and differential attacks a real PITA for the hacker (although this idea may not be very effective against a highly motivated and determined attacker, such as some

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you want to do something like this, you want to do sectorrenaming and journaling since that means you can only see that something was written but not what it was that was written. So you think that just adding specially crafted,

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-07 Thread ALeine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree. I would also add random reads (or specially designed, combined random reads and writes) to make traffic analysis and differential attacks a real PITA for the hacker (although this idea may not be very effective against a highly motivated and determined

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-07 Thread soralx
If you want to do something like this, you want to do sectorrenaming and journaling since that means you can only see that something was written but not what it was that was written. So you think that just adding specially crafted, random reads/writes will have no significant positive

Re: freebsd problem: What SCSI RAID controller compatible with 5.3-Release

2005-03-07 Thread Amandeep Pannu
Hi Scott, I am encountering these errors wiht FreeBSD 5.3-REL-p5 Any ideas what is going on. ahd0: Adaptec AIC7902 Ultra320 SCSI adapter port 0x4000-0x40ff,0x4400-0x44ff mem 0xfc30-0xfc301fff irq 28 at device 2.0 on pci3 ahd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] aic7902: Ultra320 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, PCI-X

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-07 Thread ALeine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:43:13AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also believe that it would be beneficial to implement regular rewriting of randomly picked lock sector(s) at random times during a user specified interval (up to x rewrites within n seconds)

Re: iSCSI initiator driver beta version, testers wanted

2005-03-07 Thread Danny Braniss
well, i guess all is ok, since im not getting much feedback :-) anyways, this is my new problem: o- the target accepts the login, but does not supply a valid device, usually because some admin. problem. I would like to be able to report the problem to the initiator and I need some clues. The