Re: Entropy Key for FreeBSD?

2011-12-11 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se wrote: Hi, Did anyone in the community try to adopt the Entropy Key http://www.entropykey.com/ for use with FreeBSD? As a non-programmer I would not even try but perhaps someone with better skills already did? FWIW

Re: Entropy Key for FreeBSD?

2010-11-08 Thread RW
On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:51:08 +0100 Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se wrote: Hi, Did anyone in the community try to adopt the Entropy Key http://www.entropykey.com/ for use with FreeBSD? As a non-programmer I would not even try but perhaps someone with better skills already did?

Re: Entropy Key for FreeBSD?

2010-11-08 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
On 11/09/10 01:09, RW wrote: On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:51:08 +0100 Per olof Ljungmarkp...@intersonic.se wrote: Hi, Did anyone in the community try to adopt the Entropy Key http://www.entropykey.com/ for use with FreeBSD? As a non-programmer I would not even try but perhaps someone with better

Re: entropy

2005-08-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hanspeter Roth wrote: Hello, hello, grab a beverage and start reading ;) what is entropy for? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy What are the consequences if one sets rc.conf/entropy_file and rc.conf/entropy_dir to NO? $ grep entropy /etc/defaults/rc.conf entropy_file=/entropy # Set

Re: entropy

2005-08-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
Norberto Meijome wrote: Hanspeter Roth wrote: Hello, hello, grab a beverage and start reading ;) what is entropy for? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_entropy being far more accurate to this thread. Beto, with half a brain correcting the

Re: Entropy Blocking

2005-08-09 Thread Bob Johnson
On 8/9/05, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 04:30:12PM -0600, Danny MacMillan wrote: On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 07:09:35 -0600, Wes Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess nobody gives rat-rump about the entropy problem. Figures. -- www The people who

Re: Entropy Blocking

2005-08-08 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 07:09:35 -0600, Wes Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess nobody gives rat-rump about the entropy problem. Figures. -- www The people who know how to help you probably didn't read your original question, since it was posted under a very misleading subject line. You

Re: Entropy Blocking

2005-08-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 04:30:12PM -0600, Danny MacMillan wrote: On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 07:09:35 -0600, Wes Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess nobody gives rat-rump about the entropy problem. Figures. -- www The people who know how to help you probably didn't read your original

Re: Entropy harvesting: interrupts ethernet point_to_point

2003-09-04 Thread Mark Woodson
On Thursday 04 September 2003 05:33 am, Putinas wrote: [snip] and also part of my custom kernel, I tried to commend RANDOM_IP_ID, PFIL_HOOKS but I got same results : options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE options IPFIREWALL #firewall options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE

Re: /entropy

2003-06-21 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 21 June 2003 11:55 am, Socketd wrote: Hi I have just installed 5.1 Release and noticed that there is a new file in / (entropy). Why is it placed there and what is it? Well, for starters, this is the wrong list. You are supposed to ask question about 5.x on -current. You are

Re: entropy

2003-01-16 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On 15 Jan 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Wilkinson,Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone recommend to me where I can read up on entropy. ie what it is ? Why we have it ? etc etc The term entropy is often used (in rough analogy to its technical meaning in thermodynamics) in computer

Re: entropy

2003-01-15 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 08:51:35AM +, P. U. Kruppa wrote: On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Kevin Stevens wrote: On Tuesday, Jan 14, 2003, at 22:46 US/Pacific, Wilkinson,Alex wrote: Can someone recommend to me where I can read up on entropy. ie what it is ? Why we have it ? etc etc

Re: entropy

2003-01-15 Thread Paul Everlund
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 08:51:35AM +, P. U. Kruppa wrote: On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Kevin Stevens wrote: On Tuesday, Jan 14, 2003, at 22:46 US/Pacific, Wilkinson,Alex wrote: [big snip] Did you actually have to MOVE your browser from in front

Re: entropy

2003-01-15 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:51:23AM +0100, Paul Everlund wrote: Maybe even more usual and a possibility today than before, as mobile phones are able to send/recieve e-mails (if I only could get my own phone to work as it should :-). All the good things are not available by WAP though, and hence

WAP-server [Was Re: entropy]

2003-01-15 Thread Paul Everlund
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Scott Mitchell wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:51:23AM +0100, Paul Everlund wrote: Maybe even more usual and a possibility today than before, as mobile phones are able to send/recieve e-mails (if I only could get my own phone to work as it should :-). All the good

Re: WAP-server [Was Re: entropy]

2003-01-15 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 04:53:25PM +0100, Paul Everlund wrote: Do anyone by the way know if a special web-server is required for serving wap-pages, i.e. can one use Apache? If not, what's out there? Will take a look in the ports tree to see if I find anything. A wap page is nothing more than

Re: WAP-server [Was Re: entropy]

2003-01-15 Thread Paul Everlund
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Anand Buddhdev wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 04:53:25PM +0100, Paul Everlund wrote: Do anyone by the way know if a special web-server is required for serving wap-pages, i.e. can one use Apache? If not, what's out there? Will take a look in the ports tree to see if I

Re: entropy

2003-01-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Wilkinson,Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone recommend to me where I can read up on entropy. ie what it is ? Why we have it ? etc etc The term entropy is often used (in rough analogy to its technical meaning in thermodynamics) in computer systems to describe the amount of randomness

Re: entropy

2003-01-15 Thread Wilkinson,Alex
You are an absolute cockhead shell man 4 random What kind of crack are you smoking wanker ? - aW Entropy is a tendency towards disorder in the universe, exemplified by things LIKE SOME FREAKIN' CLUELESS GIT POSTING A TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC SCIENCE MESSAGE TO A COMPUTER

Re: entropy

2003-01-15 Thread Wilkinson,Alex
From: http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/5.0-RELEASE/relnotes-i386.html The random(4) device has been rewritten to use the Yarrow algorithm. It harvests entropy from a variety of interrupt sources, including the console devices, Ethernet and point-to-point network interfaces, and

Re: entropy

2003-01-14 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Tuesday, Jan 14, 2003, at 22:46 US/Pacific, Wilkinson,Alex wrote: Can someone recommend to me where I can read up on entropy. ie what it is ? Why we have it ? etc etc - aW Entropy is a tendency towards disorder in the universe, exemplified by things LIKE SOME FREAKIN' CLUELESS GIT

Re: entropy

2003-01-14 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Kevin Stevens wrote: On Tuesday, Jan 14, 2003, at 22:46 US/Pacific, Wilkinson,Alex wrote: Can someone recommend to me where I can read up on entropy. ie what it is ? Why we have it ? etc etc - aW Entropy is a tendency towards disorder in the universe,