Re: Debian OpenSSL desaster (was: Patch: new random pseudodevice)

2011-12-12 Thread Ted Lemon
On Dec 11, 2011, at 2:52 PM, Mouse wrote: I'm not entirely sure what I mean by that. It's difficult to explain, even to myself. I think anyone who hack on NetBSD understands why you must, Mouse. We may not understand why you must do *this* particular thing, but we at least understand the

Re: Debian OpenSSL desaster (was: Patch: new random pseudodevice)

2011-12-11 Thread Mouse
[I tried to send this as private mail, but get host Sparkle-4.Rodents-Montreal.ORG[216.46.5.7] refused to talk to me: 550-.de's whois server, whois.denic.de, is completely broken, [...] I wrote up a point-by-point reply to this, but then realized, this is tech-kern, not

Re: Debian OpenSSL desaster (was: Patch: new random pseudodevice)

2011-12-11 Thread David Holland
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:35:07PM +0100, Edgar Fu? wrote: [I tried to send this as private mail, but get host Sparkle-4.Rodents-Montreal.ORG[216.46.5.7] refused to talk to me: 550-.de's whois server, whois.denic.de, is completely broken, handing 550-out no contact information at all

Re: Debian OpenSSL desaster (was: Patch: new random pseudodevice)

2011-12-11 Thread Mouse
[...] The short answer is that Mouse likes tilting at windmills. :-) Eh. I think that is at least a little of a misstatement. I don't do such things because I enjoy doing them. Quite the opposite. I do them because I must. I'm not entirely sure what I mean by that. It's difficult to

Re: Debian OpenSSL desaster (was: Patch: new random pseudodevice)

2011-12-11 Thread David Holland
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 02:52:28PM -0500, Mouse wrote: [...] The short answer is that Mouse likes tilting at windmills. :-) Eh. I think that is at least a little of a misstatement. I don't do such things because I enjoy doing them. Quite the opposite. I do them because I must.