Re: [OT] Micro$oft versus security

2005-09-22 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Erik Wikström wrote: Anyone here agree that MD5 and SHA1 are 'weak' crypto? Any other thoughts about the subject? I would not say that MD5 and SHA1 are weak, but considering that some companies run the same version of a MS-product for ages and considering the reports of attacks against then,

Re: Samba 3.0.14a and 3.0.20 coredump

2005-09-22 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Hiten Pandya wrote: Dave Hayes wrote: Trying to get samba running on Preview-1.3.6: smbd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense [2005/09/21 18:37:11, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(36) Heh. It's quite obvious that the person who came up with the warning message for free()

Re: [OT] Micro$oft versus security

2005-09-22 Thread Raphael Marmier
For those, like me, who are not at ease with mathematics but still want to have a practical understanding of the problem, I can only recommand O'Reilly's Secure programming Cookbook for C and C++. Although I don't cod in C, it gave me a good insight into applied crypto and security in

Re: [OT] Micro$oft versus security

2005-09-22 Thread walt
Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: [...] Nevertheless they have been broken recently (about one year) and for MD5 for example single bits can be changed... Okay, that's why I asked -- I didn't know that. But why take a year to break a secure hash when you can use a buffer overrun to gain

Re: [OT] Micro$oft versus security

2005-09-22 Thread Thomas E. Spanjaard
walt wrote: Okay, that's why I asked -- I didn't know that. But why take a year to break a secure hash when you can use a buffer overrun to gain access to ten thousand Windows machines in a few minutes ;o) Same can be said of the hundreds of thousands of Apache installations out there. And

Re: [OT] Micro$oft versus security

2005-09-22 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
walt wrote: Nevertheless they have been broken recently (about one year) and for MD5 for example single bits can be changed... Okay, that's why I asked -- I didn't know that. But why take a year to break a secure hash when you can use a buffer overrun to gain access to ten thousand Windows

Re: Samba 3.0.14a and 3.0.20 coredump

2005-09-22 Thread Michael Powell
Dave Hayes wrote: Trying to get samba running on Preview-1.3.6: smbd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense [2005/09/21 18:37:11, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(36) === [2005/09/21 18:37:11, 0]

Re: Mounting problem

2005-09-22 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
On 22.09.2005, at 18:20, David wrote: I have been trying ( with no luck) to get a extended dos partition to mount W2K see's it as the D drive. The Primary partition mount just fine.. doing a Mount_msdos /dev/ad0s5 /dos_d returns no such file or directory sh MAKEDEV ad0s5a

Re: Mounting problem

2005-09-22 Thread David
Thanks that did it! I thoght that may be the fix but I am so new to this I really didnt know. Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: On 22.09.2005, at 18:20, David wrote: I have been trying ( with no luck) to get a extended dos partition to mount W2K see's it as the D drive. The

Re: ACPI suspend/resume [now working]

2005-09-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
:After playing around a little, I found that the following patch makes :suspend/resume work: :.. : : :icu_reinit() has been in previous FreeBSD versions of acpi_wakeup.c. : :I am not sure, whether this is the right way to fix it though. : : Johannes Nice work! It does make sense...