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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Loren M. Lang
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 9:12 PM
To: Ted Mittelstaedt
Cc: FreeBSD questions; Loren M. Lang; Rob; Kris Kennaway
Subject: Re: /dev/io , /dev/mem : only used by Xorg?
I don't seem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 04:11:24AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Actually, recompiling openssl to use a prng daemon instead of the
random device will probably improve your ssh security - unless they
have greatly improved the entropy generation in the random device in
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 04:58:02AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Yes - there's some random testing suites on the Internet, find a
few and compile them. (ENT for example) Run them repeatedly and see
what happens.
Part of the problem is that BY DEFAULT the random device
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:02:51AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 04:11:24AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Actually, recompiling openssl to use a prng daemon instead of the
random device will probably improve your ssh security - unless
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:06:11AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Another strange thing is that /dev/random should block when it
runs out of entropy - it doesen't seem to do so, however. And the
device doesen't seem to gain entropy that quickly.
No, it should not block because it's not
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From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 1:29 AM
To: Ted Mittelstaedt
Cc: Kris Kennaway; Loren M. Lang; Rob; FreeBSD questions
Subject: Re: /dev/io , /dev/mem : only used by Xorg?
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:06:11AM -0800, Ted
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 12:13:08PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 04:58:02AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Yes - there's some random testing suites on the Internet, find a
few and compile them. (ENT for example) Run them repeatedly and see what
happens.
Part of
, /dev/mem : only used by Xorg?
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 01:32:26AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Instead, they are part of the kernel itself.
All the /dev files are, /dev/random, /dev/ad0 and so on,
are simple
files that take up only a few bytes of space
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rob
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 6:26 PM
To: FreeBSD questions
Subject: /dev/io , /dev/mem : only used by Xorg?
Hello,
This is on 5.3-STABLE.
On my desktop FreeBSD PC:
$ fstat /dev
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 01:32:26AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Instead, they are part of the kernel itself.
All the /dev files are, /dev/random, /dev/ad0 and so on, are simple
files that take up only a few bytes of space. They are convenient
hook points to use to get to these devices.
--- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As the original poster discussed, /dev/io, /dev/mem
and /dev/random
are optional components of the 5.x kernel, although
as I replied, the
situations in which one would not want to include
them are limited.
What triggered my question, was what I
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From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 2:58 AM
To: Ted Mittelstaedt
Cc: Rob; FreeBSD questions
Subject: Re: /dev/io , /dev/mem : only used by Xorg?
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 01:32:26AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote
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Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 3:11 AM
To: FreeBSD questions
Subject: Re: /dev/io , /dev/mem : only used by Xorg?
What triggered my question, was what I found in the
man page of io
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 04:11:24AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 2:58 AM
To: Ted Mittelstaedt
Cc: Rob; FreeBSD questions
Subject: Re: /dev/io , /dev/mem : only used by Xorg
-Original Message-
From: Loren M. Lang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 4:40 AM
To: Ted Mittelstaedt
Cc: Kris Kennaway; Rob; FreeBSD questions
Subject: Re: /dev/io , /dev/mem : only used by Xorg?
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 04:11:24AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 04:11:24AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Actually, recompiling openssl to use a prng daemon instead of the random
device
will probably improve your ssh security - unless they have greatly
improved the entropy generation in the random device in 5.X
Yes. It seems that
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 04:58:02AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Yes - there's some random testing suites on the Internet, find a
few and compile them. (ENT for example) Run them repeatedly and see what
happens.
Part of the problem is that BY DEFAULT the random device DOES NOT
look at
Hello,
This is on 5.3-STABLE.
On my desktop FreeBSD PC:
$ fstat /dev/io /dev/mem
only shows that Xorg is using these devices.
Googling on /dev/io and /dev/mem, finds only Xorg
related discussions and problems.
I now also have Server PC, that does not run X at all.
I'm about to remove the
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 06:26:22PM -0800, Rob wrote:
Googling on /dev/io and /dev/mem, finds only Xorg
related discussions and problems.
I now also have Server PC, that does not run X at all.
I'm about to remove the devices io and mem
in the kernel configuration. Is that OK?
Some other
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